Flooding and the Midwest economy: Assessing the Midwest floods of 1993 and 2008

GeoJournal

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-258

  Xiao, Yu ^a   Wan, Jun ^b   Hewings, Geoffrey J D ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

1993 Midwest flood; 2008 Midwest flood; ARIMA; Economic impact; Quasi experimental design

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODEL; EMPLOYMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARIMA; CASE-CONTROL; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY; INTERVENTION MODELS; MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS; OPTIMAL MATCHING; UNEMPLOYMENT RATES;

FLOODS;

ALGORITHM; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLOOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; MACROECONOMICS; RESEARCH WORK; UNEMPLOYMENT; VULNERABILITY;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876038212     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-011-9415-9     Document Type: Article

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