Creative disasters? Flooding effects on capital, labour and productivity within European firms

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 333-350

  Leiter, Andrea M ^a   Oberhofer, Harald ^a   Raschky, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b AlpS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate change; Difference in difference; Firm growth; Natural disasters; Productivity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; PRODUCTIVITY;

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; EMPLOYMENT GROWTH; FIRM GROWTH; FLOODING EFFECTS; IMPACT OF FLOODS; INTANGIBLE ASSETS; NATURAL DISASTERS;

FLOODS;

CAPITAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOOD; LABOR; NATURAL DISASTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67650921708     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-009-9273-9     Document Type: Article

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