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Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey: The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk / Nicholas Z. Muller, Caroline A. Hopkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muller, Nicholas Z.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25984.
- NBER working paper series no. w25984
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- This study uses hedonic property models to explore how coastal real estate markets subject to heterogeneous information treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by examining non-local flooding events. Utilizing a difference-in-difference methodology, we test whether the coastal real estate market in New Jersey responds to several well-publicized hurricanes and tropical storms that did not strike the Atlantic seaboard. We find that homes in high flood risk zones situated in towns that participate in public flood awareness activities incur a 7 to 16 percent decrease in price after the non-local shock.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2019.
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