Coping with Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002

Dean Yang

NBER Working Paper No. 12794
Issued in December 2006

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I have valued feedback and suggestions from John DiNardo, Kathryn Dominguez, Liz Gerber, Juan Carlos Hallak, Jim Hines, Bob Lipsey, Justin McCrary, Albert Park, Kiki Pop-Eleches, Matt Slaughter, Arvind Subramanian, Linda Tesar, Shang-Jin Wei, David Weinstein, Obie Whichard, and seminar participants at the IMF, the University of Michigan, the 2005 NBER Summer Institute in International Trade and Investment, and the 8th BREAD Conference (at Cornell). I also thank David Dollar and Giuseppe Iarossi for sharing their data. HwaJung Choi and Eric Hendrickson provided superb research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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