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, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. We then draw conclusions, how the market for insurance against natural disasters …
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, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …
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whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the … Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …
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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 …
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This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom …
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We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury...
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People often fail to insure against catastrophes, even when insurance is subsidized. Even when insuring homes, many homeowners still underinsure the full value of their assets. Some researchers have suggested using long-term insurance contracts to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine...
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Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...
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Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and … Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in … is Germany's capitulation in 1945. The analysis of financial markets provides a fruitful method to evaluate the …
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