Topics: Social, economic and political aspects of Climate Change.

In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

Key note speakers and conference participants will present papers examining different means of adapting to the multiple consequences of climate change for the urban poor. Themes thus may include, but aren’t limited to, the nexus between climate change, urban poverty and: - Health, water and...

The objectives: 1) To increase interaction between researchers on all continents who share an interest in issues related to dynamic risk sharing: - Dynamic contracting (optimal compensation schemes, delegated portfolio management,...) - Dynamic risk measures, risk sharing implications - Risk...