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We study how managers respond to hurricane events when their firms are located in the neighborhood of the disaster area. We find that the sudden shock to the perceived liquidity risk leads managers to increase corporate cash holdings and to express more concerns about hurricane risk in...
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insured against natural disasters. In France, any housing insurance contract includes the coverage against natural disasters …. In 2006, only 52% of households in departments overseas have suscribed a housing insurance contract for their main home … low demand for insurance, but probably also from a limited supply by insurers. We show that income and being a landowner …
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We propose a task for eliciting attitudes towards risk that is close to real world risky decisions which typically involve gains and losses. The task consists of accepting or rejecting gambles that provide a gain with probability p and a loss with probability 1 − p. We employ finite mixture...
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