This paper studies the evolution of hurricane insurance in Florida over the last decades. Hurricanes (and other natural … insurance cover from the private market and/or can do so only at premiums that substantially exceed their expected claims costs … levels with the creation of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (an insurer of last resort) and the Florida Hurricane …

disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …

literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance … GDP. We build a comprehensive database of disaster events and their intensities from primary geophysical and … meteorological information. In contrast to insurance data, our GeoMet data reveal a substantial negative and robust average impact …

research on the topic of disasters. As such, we choose to focus on two topics: price gouging, and post-disaster economic …

The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in … analysing the applicability of various financial instruments to facilitate both ex-ante and ex-post disaster risk management in …