Sequencing Lifeline Repairs After an Earthquake: An Economic Approach

Marco Casari and Simon Wilkie

Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2005, vol. 27, issue 1, 47-65

Abstract: Recoveries after recent earthquakes in the U.S. and Japan have shown that large welfare gains can be achieved by reshaping current emergency plans as incentive-compatible contracts. We apply tools from the mechanisms design literature to show ways to integrate economic incentives into the management of natural disasters and discuss issues related to the application to seismic event recovery. The focus is on restoring lifeline services such as the water, gas, transportation, and electric power networks. We put forward decisional procedures that an uninformed planner could employ to set repair priorities and help to coordinate lifeline firms in the post-earthquake reconstruction. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: utilities; natural disasters; mechanism design; network externalities; inter-temporal decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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