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 …

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 insurance decisions in a computer-administered experiment that makes several …

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 …

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

It is widely recognized that market failureʺ prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster insurance. As a …-private partnerships. We define risk selection as a situation where private companies pass insurance of high risk agents on to the public …

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 …

In this paper we briefly summarise the results of our studies of the property insurance market in 5 countries, Britain …, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. We then draw conclusions, how the market for insurance against natural disasters …