of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …

from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery … and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of … effective than insurance-managed repairs in contributing to local recovery. …

disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … does proximity to the centres of Dhaka and Chittagong. Public spending for adaptive disaster risk reduction, as …

accountability and politicians’ support for special interests. We show that, in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, the evening …

Conventional wisdom in economics holds that traditional credit and insurance networks are inapt for insuring against … disaster to different extents, we estimate the causal effect of this devastating economic shock on financial flows between …