This paper studies the politico-economic reasons for the refusal of a proposed compulsory flood insurance scheme in Germany. It provides the rationale for such scheme and outlines the basic features of a market-orientated design. The main reasons for the political down-turn of this proposal were...

Dieses Papier untersucht die politisch-ökonomischen Gründe für die Ablehnung eines Versicherungspflicht für Elementarschäden in Deutschland. Nach einer Darlegung der ökonomischen Vorteilhaftigkeit und der Grundzüge eines praktikablen Modells einer Elementarschadenversicherungspflicht...

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

This paper studies the politico-economic reasons for the refusal of a proposed compulsory flood insurance scheme in Germany. It provides the rationale for such scheme and outlines the basic features of a market-orientated design. The main reasons for the political down-turn of this proposal were...

In den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren eine Kultur des Teilens von Daten (data sharing) durchgesetzt. Das heißt, es sind zunehmend interessante Daten für Forschungszwecke verfügbar; die Herausforderung besteht heute in der Organisation dieser...

Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...

This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of an adaptation of these systems to climate change and a growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of...