: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

,187 homeowners, half of whom are in the Netherlands, where flood insurance penetration rates are low and recent flooding caused minor … among homeowners with little to no flood-related experience: in the Netherlands defaults increase the likelihood of insuring …

on take-up than does the disaster experience …

which a disaster insurance program should be based. Section 3 then focuses on the second question by analyzing the …. Section 4 turns to the third question and delineates the opportunities and challenges of a comprehensive disaster insurance … program. Section 5 poses a set of open issues that are currently being addressed by a research project on disaster insurance …

regional-level mitigation or adaptation, which reduces disaster risks to capital in the interim. Mitigation depends on belief … regarding the adverse consequences of global warming. Pessimism jumps with a disaster and slowly reverts in the absence of … increasing cyclone frequency. For a typical country exposed to cyclones, a disaster arrival not only damages its capital stock …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the most devastating natural disaster in modern European history. It …