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In the face of rising climate risk, financial institutions may adapt by transferring such risk to securitizers that … to climate risk may be a drop in the ocean of cash flows. This paper builds a data set of the entire securitization chain … optimal deals by finding the portfolio weights in an asset demand system that targets return and risk. Extrapolating wildfire …
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fire risk and decreases surprisingly steeply with development density. A simple model is used to explore effects on … expansion of developed areas, density, and private risk-reducing investments. These results demonstrate how policy and …
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Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective technologies and behaviors appears limited by myopia, externalities, and other factors. One response to such frictions is to mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of...
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, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal … US, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 years. Using a statistical model that links satellite-based fire and …
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between locations that vary in their perceived level of fire risk. The model allows us to infer the evolution of risk … analysis is based on a multi-dimensional characterization of the potential linkages between fire events and risk perceptions …We investigate the effects of wildfires on risk perceptions by quantifying the impact of severe wildfires on housing …
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Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical … VAR values that are adjusted for risk aversion, time preferences, and other variations in economic valuation. In the … context of a representative agent equilibrium model, we construct an estimator of the risk-aversion coefficient that is …
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A fiscal program that redistributes income from rich to poor individuals indirectly redistributes tax revenues from regions hit by a favorable shock to regions hit by an unfavorable one. Centralized fiscal redistribution has therefore been advocated as a way to insure individuals against...
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these rejections are in part a consequence of the presence of omitted risk factors which are associated with nonzero risk … model should partially reflect exposure to these omitted sources of systematic risk and,hence, should help explain expected … residual risk effect in the previous literature:(1) nonlinearity of the residual risk effect and (2) the inadequacy of the …
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the seriousness of this type of risk in the current United States situation are presented. Sufficient conditions on the … structure of the economy for such intergenerational risk pooling to be mutually beneficial to all members of society are derived …
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banks to pursue safer investments in low-risk government securities …
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