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Flood Risk and Firm Location Decisions in the Fed’s Second District

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The intensity, duration, and frequency of flooding have increased over the past few decades. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 99 percent of U.S. counties have been impacted by a flooding event since 1999. As the frequency of flood events continues to increase, the number of people, buildings, and agriculture exposed to flood risk is only likely to grow. As a previous post points out, measuring the geographical accuracy of such risk is important and may impact bank lending. In this post, we focus on the distribution of flood risk within the Federal Reserve’s Second District and examine its effect on establishment location decisions over the last two decades.

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  • Oliver Zain Hannaoui & Hyeyoon Jung & João A. C. Santos & Lee Seltzer, 2023. "Flood Risk and Firm Location Decisions in the Fed’s Second District," Liberty Street Economics 20231114, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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    climate risk; flood risk; firm location;
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    JEL classification:

    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General

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