Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate … paper we investigate if and how current EU policies influence flood insurance. While the question of supply and demand is at … the core of the debate, we argue that another key dimension is often overlooked: how to use insurance as a lever for risk …

objectives through the provision of (catastrophic) natural hazard insurance. This is the case of many OECD countries, notably … hazard insurance develop. This paper has a dual objective: 1) review the complex legal background that rules the provision of … insurance against natural catastrophes in the EU after these major reforms; 2) assess the implications of the reforms and offer …

uniform. We analyze how climate risks could be reduced via an insurance scheme at the global scale across regions and quantify …

, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs … projects, in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium. We finally draw an …