Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters and Production Efficiency: Moving Closer to or Further from the Frontier?

Abstract Production efficiency is a key determinant of economic growth and demonstrates how a country uses its resources by relating the quantity of its inputs to its outputs. When a natural hazard-induced disaster strikes, it has a devastating impact on capital and labor, but at the same time provi...

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Main Authors: Preeya S. Mohan, Nekeisha Spencer, Eric Strobl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-019-0218-9