Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective …

We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about … since disaster leads to pessimistic arrival-rate beliefs and taxes or mandates to fund mitigation, which reduce consumption …

quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the …

specifically target extreme weather events. This paper shows that US hurricanes lead to substantial increases in non-disaster … hurricane. The present value of this increase significantly exceeds that of direct disaster aid. This implies, among other …

COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster …

associated with a stronger relationship between premiums and local disaster risk: A one standard-deviation increase in disaster …-through of reinsurance costs. Third, we project that if the reinsurance shock persists, growing disaster risk will lead climate …

application data from the U.S. Federal Disaster Loan program, which provides loans to households that have uninsured damages from … a federally-declared natural disaster, to a panel of credit records before and after the shock. We exploit a … following the disaster. We explore mechanisms using additional quasi-experimental variation in interest rates, finding support …