The impact of natural disasters on China’s macroeconomy

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 27; no. 35; pp. 43987 - 43998
• Main Authors: Pu, Chengyi, Liu, Zhen, Pan, Xiaojun, Addai, Bismark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Earth and Environmental Science; Econometrics; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental science; Industrial development; Macroeconomics; Natural disasters; Regional development; Regression analysis; Research Article; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; China; SUR model; Macroeconomic fluctuation; SVAR model; Natural disasters

This study attempts to construct an econometric model using China’s natural disaster losses and macro-industry development data from 1980 to 2017 to explore the macroeconomic fluctuations caused by natural disasters. The structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) and the seemingly unrelated regression...