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different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the … effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … we construct time-varying indicators of hurricane risk on the zip-code-level for the period of 2010 to 2018, based on …
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used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and damages from flooding and erosion. Further, such flood risk models can … then include the effects of ecosystems, such as mangroves, to model the effects on risk of conservation and restoration …
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rise and uncertain storm surge. An application of CIAM is then presented to demonstrate the model's ability to assess local …
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debt, measured as the difference between post and pre-storm trends, is about 10 percent. Three years after such a storm …
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Concurrent with the rapid development of the market for catastrophe (cat) bonds, a steady decline in their risk premia … has been observed. Whether the latter trend is consistent with the evolution of natural disasters risk is an open question …. Indeed, a large share of outstanding risk capital in the cat bonds market appears to be exposed to some climate change …
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The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered climate change as a risk issue since 2010. Several emission … financial performances, especially of listed companies. There are two ways these companies can disclose their transition risk … exposure and are not alternatives. One is the explicit declaration of exposure to transition risk in the legally binding …
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We study whether climate transition risk is reflected in the credit default swap (CDS) spreads of firms. Using … risk (CTR) factor, and document how this factor shifts the term structure of the CDS spreads of more vulnerable firms but … that they have asymmetric and significant economic impacts on the credit risk of more vulnerable firms, and negligible …
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The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …
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Climate Engineering, and in particular Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has become a widely discussed climate policy option to study in recent years. However, its potentially strategic nature and unforeseen side effects provide major policy and scientific challenges. We study the role of the SRM...
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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 …
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