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Since the 1990s, efforts have been made to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters, among which the Disaster … established as an important model for Korea's disaster risk reduction activities. …
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community resilience to disaster consequences. Development practitioners, planners, and researchers must find novel techniques … minimize disaster risk in communities. People’s standards, beliefs, and behaviors are greatly influenced by societal … study confirmed that the school curriculum has a positive and significant relationship with disaster risk management. Many …
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This study presents an easy-to-handle approach to measuring the severity of reinsurance that faces a system of dependent claims, where the reinsurance contracts are of excess loss or proportional loss. The proposed approach is a natural generalization of common reinsurance methodologies...
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The publication of several special issues was part of the initiatives taken in 2013 to launch Risks as a new online journal. It seemed natural to devote one to this important, concrete and complex problem of managing catastrophic and heavy tailed risks. We received an enthusiastic response last...
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Nat Cat risks are not insurable by traditional insurance mainly because of producing highly correlated losses. The source of such correlation among buildings of a region subject to a natural hazard is discussed. A decomposition method is proposed to split Nat Cat risk into idiosyncratic (and...
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mechanisms by studying the feedback loops governing complex systems connected to the disaster insurance mechanism. Instead of … addressing the disaster's underlying risk, the traditional disaster insurance strategy largely focuses on providing financial … security for asset recovery after a disaster. This constraint becomes especially concerning as the threat of climate …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on numerous industries, including the event industry, resulting in widespread disruptions. The widespread cancellations of festivals have been a direct consequence of the pandemic, and, following the reopening, those that have taken place have...
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Systemic Banking crises are a recurrent phenomenon that affects society, and there is a need for a better understanding of the risk factors to support prudential regulation and reduce unnecessary risk intake in the financial system. This paper examines the main bank risk determinants in Latin...
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determinants of the wiped-off coupon and principal by both the magnitude and intensity of the natural disaster events involved. As … the trigger indicators resulting from the potential catastrophic disaster might be associated with heavy-tailed margins …
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