The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia

Jhorland Ayala García; Sandy Dall’erba; William C. Ridley

doi:10.1080/00343404.2022.2104830

The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia

Jhorland Ayala García, Sandy Dall’erba, William C. Ridley

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This paper studies the impact of natural disasters on tax revenue across Colombian municipalities. We follow a two-step approach to evaluate how a municipality’s tax revenue depends on natural disasters taking place both locally and in its trade partners. In the first step, we estimate a gravity model of bilateral trade and construct a matrix of estimated bilateral trade shares, allowing us to measure the strength of the economic relationships between municipalities. In the second step, our results reveal that natural disasters in the destination municipalities increase the tax revenue in the origin cities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	857-867
Number of pages	11
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	57
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2104830
State	Published - 2023

Keywords

Colombia
gravity
municipalities
natural disasters
spatial externalities
tax revenue

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General Environmental Science
General Social Sciences

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