The provision of flood insurance is a patchwork, with countries showing varying degrees of penetration, coverage types …, demand levels, and design structures. This article explores the current understanding of flood insurance with a specific … focus on the ability of flood insurance to contribute to direct risk reduction. The starting point is a consideration of the …

. This article reviews the affordability of cancer care in these countries with particular reference to the United Kingdom (U …

We present a modified open monocentric city model that assumes that land is available for conversion into new housing … throughout the city. The model predicts that positive local income shocks (i) increase the city’s share of multi-family housing … Housing Survey from 1984 to 2004 and find support for both predictions. We confirm that the adjustment process is driven by …

developed plots and reduce the amount of new housing developments. In general equilibrium, locations with nicer amenities are …

Equilibrium of the housing market depends on a complex set of interactions between: (1) individual location decisions …; (2) individual housing investment; (3) collective decisions on urban growth. We embed these three elements in a model of … shocks a¤ecting labor productivity. We characterize the feedback between the households’ desire to invest in housing as a …

. The behavior we observe is consistent with a natural generalization of existing theories of industry dynamics that …