Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery … event, more than 95% of residential housing units were covered by insurance, but insurance payments were staggered over 5 … and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of …

fair price for low risk types provides full insurance against reclassification risk. We develop a model that includes … unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over … whose type turns out to be high risk but low demand renew more of their GR insurance than is efficient due to the attractive …

is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal … can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

. The pandemic risk cannot be mutualized since it affects simultaneously a large number of businesses, and furthermore, it … risk coverage mechanisms based on a portfolio of financial securities, including long-short positions and options in stock … conclusions are derived from a theoretical model of corporate risk management, and they are illustrated by numerical simulations …

study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

, and climate change is predicted to intensify this problem. The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) scheme piloted in …

that hardly explains the many features of an insurance contract. We extend this setup to include the situation that the … costlessly observable, then it should be included in the contract to improve the risk sharing-incentive trade-off under moral … show how the law of insurance contracts should allow insurers to incentivize policyholders to exert an adequate level of …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … wider set of possible determinants of credit risk. The empirical results suggest that macroeconomic and firm …-specific factors both play important roles. Other key findings are the following: credit risk varies across firms depending on their …

We consider a competitive insurance market with adverse selection. Unlike the standard models, we assume that … limited liability afforded via bankruptcy laws. Government assistance is calculated ex post of any insurance benefits. This … alters the individuals? demand for insurance coverage. In turn, this affects equilibria in various insurance models of …