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The exposure of Italian manufacturing firms to hydrogeological risk

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  • Michele Loberto

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Riccardo Russo

    (Bank of Italy)

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This paper introduces a new methodology for assessing the exposure of Italian companies to natural hazards, which accounts for the distribution of companies' activity across different sites and locations. We apply this methodology to evaluate the exposure of manufacturing companies to flood and landslide risks. The shares of manufacturing workers directly exposed to floods and landslides are 29% and 5% respectively. The exposure to hydrogeological risk is correlated with company characteristics, in particular with the number of company sites.

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  • Michele Loberto & Riccardo Russo, 2024. "The exposure of Italian manufacturing firms to hydrogeological risk," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 899, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
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    Keywords

    natural disasters; floods; landslides; climate risk; firms;
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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