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Recovery from economic disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2023

Bruno Ćorić  and
Blanka Škrabić Perić
Bruno Ćorić*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Economics Business and Tourism, University of Split, Split, Croatia CERGE-EI Foundation, Newark, NJ, USA
Blanka Škrabić Perić
Affiliation:
Faculty of Economics Business and Tourism, University of Split, Split, Croatia
*
Corresponding author: Bruno Ćorić; Email: bcoric@efst.hr
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Abstract

This study uses two large datasets to explore the output dynamics following economic disasters, one including 180 economic disasters across 38 countries over the last two centuries and the other including 204 disasters in 182 countries since World War II. Our results suggest that extreme economic crises are associated with huge and remarkably persistent loss. On average, output loss surges to above 26% in the first few years after the outbreak of a disaster and remains above 20% for as long as 20 years. It is only after more than 50 years that the loss is fully recovered.

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Economic disastereconomic recoveryoutput loss

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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , July 2024 , pp. 1023 - 1048
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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