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title: Resilience After Climate Shocks: Evidence From SBA Disaster Loans
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/cen-wpaper-26-58/
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updated: 2026-11-14
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: RePEc:cen:wpaper:26-58
source_url: https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:cen:wpaper:26-58
featured: 2026-11-13
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Resilience After Climate Shocks: Evidence From SBA Disaster Loans

A regression discontinuity design shows that SBA disaster lending preserved 9.8% of jobs in affected counties, operating primarily through reduced firm exit rather than new hiring.

- Source: https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:cen:wpaper:26-58
- Identifier: RePEc:cen:wpaper:26-58
- Released: 2026-11-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 139 (2026-11-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-11-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
- Authors: Federico Esposito, Saverio Simonelli

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