How Do Natural Disasters Affect Small Business Owners in the Fed’s Second District?

Asani Sarkar

No 20231115, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: In this post, we follow up on the previous Liberty Street Economics post in this series by studying other impacts of extreme weather on the real sector. Data from the Federal Reserve’s Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS) shed light on how small businesses in the Second District are impacted by natural disasters (such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, droughts, and winter storms). Among our findings are that increasing shares of small business firms in the region sustain losses from natural disasters, with minority-owned firms suffering losses at a disproportionately higher rate than white-owned firms. For many minority-owned firms, these losses make up a larger portion of their total revenues. In a companion post, we will explore the post-disaster recovery of small firms in the Second District: how long do they remain closed and what are their sources of disaster relief?

Keywords: climate; racial disparities; inequality; Second District (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 Q54 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-15
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