Gone with the Wind : Estimating Hurricane and Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean /

This paper studies the economic costs of hurricanes in the Caribbean by constructing a novel dataset that combines a detailed record of tropical cyclones' characteristics with reported damages. I estimate the relation between hurricane wind speeds and damages in the Caribbean; finding that the...

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मुख्य लेखक: Acevedo Mejia, Sebastian
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/199
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