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Natural Disasters: Exposure and Underinsurance
Grislain-Letrémy, Céline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
Insurance coverage for natural disasters remains low in many exposed areas. A limited supply of insurance is commonly identified as a primary causal factor in this low insurance coverage. The French overseas departments provide a rare natural experiment of a well-developed supply of natural...
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Natural and Industrial Disasters : Land Use and Insurance
Grislain-Letrémy, Céline; Villeneuve, Bertrand - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Urbanization in exposed areas increases the cost of disasters. For industrial risks, potential victims raise firms’ liabilities. For natural risks, overexposure by some undermines mutualization. Land use policy (particularly exclusion zones) and insurance shape urbanization, but their...
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Why Do Half of Households in the French Overseas Departments Not Purchase House Insurance?
Grislain-Letrémy, Céline; Calvet, Lucie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
In France comprehensive house insurance includes coverage against natural disasters. Whereas the French overseas departments are more exposed to natural risks than continental France, only 52% of households in overseas departments have purchased house insurance for their main home in 2006,...
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La faible souscription de l’assurance habitation des ménages dans les départements d’outre mer
Calvet, Lucie; Grislain-Letrémy, Céline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
The French departments overseas are more exposed to natural risks than continental France. Nevertheless, they are less insured against natural disasters. In France, any housing insurance contract includes the coverage against natural disasters. In 2006, only 52% of households in departments...
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Short and Long Run Effects of Earthquakes on Farm Businesses in Indonesia
Gignoux, Jérémie; Menéndez, Marta - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
This paper studies the impact of earthquakes on farm business assets in rural Indonesia. Using a panel fixed effects … model, we evaluate if the negative consequences of earthquakes extend beyond the immediate event into the medium and long …, reconstruction strategies after large earthquakes seem to provide incentives to small farm business holders to reconstitute and …
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Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia
Gignoux, Jérémie; Menéndez, Marta - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
We examine the long-term effects on individual economic outcomes of a set of earthquakes – numerous, large, but mostly … identify the effects of earthquakes, exploiting the quasi-random spatial and temporal nature of their distribution. Affected …
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Risques, assurances et valeur foncière
Villeneuve, Bertrand; Grislain-Letrémy, Céline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752115
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The Flood Issue: Uniform Insurance and Collective Prevention with Risk Externalities
Lemoyne de Forges, Sabine; Grislain-Letrémy, Céline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Prevention policies against flood, such as dams or levees, are commonly designed by local jurisdictions and for most they exert externalities on neighboring jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction chooses its collective prevention effort depending on the insurance system that covers its inhabitants. As...
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L’assurance habitation dans les départements d’Outre Mer
Calvet, Lucie; Grislain-Letrémy, Céline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
Les Départements d’Outre Mer (DOM) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la métropole. Pourtant, les ménages y sont moins nombreux à être assurés contre les catastrophes naturelles. En France, l’assurance habitation inclut obligatoirement la garantie contre les catastrophes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072207
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L’assurance habitation dans les départements d’Outre-mer : une faible souscription
Grislain-Letrémy, Céline; Calvet, Lucie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Les départements d'Outre-mer (Dom) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la France métropolitaine. Pourtant, seuls 52 % des ménages des Dom ont souscrit pour leur résidence principale une assurance habitation, qui inclut obligatoirement la couverture des catastrophes naturelles, alors...
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