Sensitivity (proportionality) of willingness to pay to (small) risk changes is often used as a criterion to test for …,005 respondents were asked their willingness to pay (WTP) for preventing an increase in risk by 1/42,500 and 3/42,500, respectively …. WTP for the higher risk variation is significantly higher than WTP for the lower risk change. We find evidence that those …

climate change. The risk of uncertain and potentially irreversible catastrophes is an important issue related to the latter … benchmark integrated assessment model. This study moves beyond recent catastrophe or tipping point studies with arbitrary risk … introduced here informs risk management strategies that balance uncertain future climate change impacts with the costs of …

Models (IAMs), which assumes no risk sharing across region, we introduce global risk sharing via a market for state … across regions. We estimate that such risk sharing scheme of climate risks could lead to welfare gains reducing the global … for considering risk sharing in IAMs, but also for potentially welfare increasing negotiations about sharing risks of …

hazards. The high urbanization rate, due to economic opportunities and natural amenities, further exacerbates vulnerabilities … of agents’ behaviour, from individual risk perceptions’ modelling to decision-making rules on the adaptation option to be …