Hurricane Damage and Exports from Southeast Asia
Abstract
This research examines the feedback effects between hurricane damage and exports in Southeast Asian economies from 2000 to 2022. Using data for Southeast Asia, we construct a damage index based on the speed of wind when each storm passes through a region and the distance of the area to the largest city in the vicinity. We then estimate the feedback effects between these hurricanes and exports. We also examine the disparities among the Southeast Asian countries.