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After the Storm Impacts of natural disasters in the United States at the state and county level

April 3, 2012

By Danjie Fang Empirical research on the impact of natural disasters on economic growth has provided contradictory results and few studies have focused on the United States. In this thesis, I bridge the gap by examining the merits of existing claims on the relationship between natural disasters and growth at the states and county level […]

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A Theory of Evacuation as a Coordination Problem

June 17, 2007

by R. Selin Dilmener Abstract  On August 29th, 2005, New Orleans was hit with one of the most damaging hurricanes in the history of the United States. Even before the storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) listed a hurricane strike in New Orleans as one of the most ruinous threats to the nation. Despite […]

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