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The property catastrophe reinsurance industry faces a major challenge. Since 1989, climatic volatility has produced … financial instruments that can be successfully used to hedge unknown catastrophe risks. …
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To provide a map to the future, we need a realistic appraisal of how we got where we are. This is the story of how humans have hedged risks. There are two basic and distinct approaches: statistical and economical. The former is typical of the insurance industry; the latter typifies the...
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parameters to assess dependency risk, a measure of correlation and that of the likelihood of a catastrophe. Its attractive …
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The cusp model of catastrophe theory is very closely related to certain multiparameter exponential families of …
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The article analyzes the basic definitions of emergencies, disasters, elements and technological accidents. It gives the characteristics of the main consequences of disasters and offers an algorithm for the economic evaluation of these effects.
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determinants of participation in Self-Help Groups and impacts on household welfare. The participation in SHG activities are …
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The paper presents findings of a large study on socio-economic impacts of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and …, infrastructure and businesses; assessments of impacts on food industries; analysis of radioactive contamination of agri-food products …
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There are few publications on various impacts of Fukushima nuclear disaster on agri-food sector in Japan in English …. Moreover, due to the scale of contamination and affected agents, impact’s multiplicities and evolution, spillovers, and long … time horizon, and the lack of “full” information and models of analysis, the overall impacts of Fukushima disaster on …
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This paper explores the non-linear relationship between financial development and economic growth. It mainly relies on the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model of Gonzalés et al. (2005) and three metrics of financial development to endogenously assess the impact of financial...
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The consumers of today are impulse and cautious buyers at the same time. This study basically comprehends the concept of non-linearity towards the consumer purchase behavior for either high or low involvement of products. The research was interesting to note the consumption patterns of different...
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