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 …

homeownership and expenditure-crowding-out hypotheses …

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

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides … have similar incomes per capita but very different homeownership rates, with the US and Australia having much higher … homeownership compared to Germany. The question is to what extent the observed differences in homeownership are induced by national …