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Regulatory Flexibility

How to Mitigate the Effects of Katrina and Other Disasters
Bruce Yandle, Mark Adams | Sep 2010
This policy comment discusses the importance of reducing regulatory barriers to recovery in the wake of a disaster.

The Potential Impact of an Optional Federal Charter on the Social Resiliency of Hazard-Prone Regions

David Marlett | Aug 12, 2010
This paper assesses the potential impact that an optional federal charter (OFC) for property and casualty insurance would have on social resiliency in affected communities in the United States. It…

Can Decentralized Bottom-Up Post-Disaster Recovery Be Effective?

Virgil Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch | Apr 05, 2010
Using data from interviews with affected residents and community leaders in New Orleans after Katrina, this article explores the effectiveness of private disaster recovery efforts and whether or not…

The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?

Peter Leeson, Christopher Coyne | Dec 2009
This paper investigates the political economy of FEMA’s post-9/11 merger with the Department of Homeland…

The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Post-Disaster Recovery

Published in
International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
Virgil Storr, Emily Chamlee-Wright | Dec 2009
This paper examines the role of the social entrepreneur in post-Katrina recovery and presents implications for…

"There's No Place Like New Orleans"

Sense of Place and Community Recovery in the Ninth Ward After Hurricane Katrina
Published in
Journal of Urban Affairs
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Dec 2009
This study contributes to the literature on the strength of place attachment, identity and dependence in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It also engages the literature concerning the role of…

Club Goods and Post-Disaster Community Return

Published in
Rationality and Society
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Nov 01, 2009
Hurricane Katrina caused over one hundred billion dollars in property damage in the Greater New Orleans region. Although much attention has been paid to why particular communities have begun to…

Doing the Right Things: The Private Sector Response to Hurricane Katrina as a Case Study in the Bourgeois Virtues

Steven Horwitz | Aug 2009
Major American companies from Marriott to McDonald’s to Wal-Mart undertook major and minor acts of bourgeois virtue and contributed in a significant way to the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Doing…

Building Walls Against Bad Infrastructure Policy In New Orleans

Peter Gordon, Richard Little | Jan 2009
This Policy Primer offers guidance for developing more rational government policies for flood protection, approaches that stop subsidizing risky…

Weathering Corruption

Published in
Journal of Law and Economics
Peter Leeson | Nov 01, 2008
Drs. Leeson and Sobel examine whether bad weather could be responsible for U.S. corruption. Natural disasters create resource windfalls in the states they strike by triggering federally-provided natural disaster relief. Like windfalls created by the "natural resource curse" and foreign aid, disaster relief windfalls may also i