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Natural catastrophes attract regularly the attention of media and have become a source of public concern. From a financial viewpoint, natural catastrophes represent idiosyncratic risks,diversifiable at the world level. But for reasons analyzed in this pap er reinsurance markets are unable to...
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In spite of the fact that they can draw on a larger, more liquid and more diversifiedpool of capital than the equity of reinsurance companies, financial markets have failed to displace reinsurance as the primary risk-sharing vehicle for natural catastrophe risk. We show that this failure can be...
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This paper explores implications of climate change for fiscal policy by assessing theimpact of large scale extreme weather events on changes in public budgets. We applyalternative measures for large scale extreme weather events and conclude that thebudgetary impact of such events ranges between...
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Catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) often use index triggers, such as, for instance, parametric descriptions of a catastrophe. This implies the problem of the so-called basis risk, resulting from the fact that, in contrast to traditional reinsurance, this kind of coverage cannotbe a perfect hedge for...
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Dramatic events in the recent past have drawn attention to catastrophe risk management problems. The devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 incurred the highest insured losses to date. Furthermore, a trend of increasing losses from natural catastrophes appears to be observable...
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Public infrastructure is an important part of a wellfunctioningurban economy. Such infrastructure—definedhere as … overall benefits that exceed their costs.1That is to say, is the amount of infrastructure we havesufficient, or would we … benefit from an increase? Anotherimportant question is, do our institutional structures promoteefficient infrastructure …
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), infrastructure (railway tracks, roads), vehicles (railway rolling stock, ships) and machinery.[...] …
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and Real Estate Management (CUREM) in Zurich. The Goal was to analyze the relation between big infrastructure and urban … evolution was observed from 1980 to 2000 in order to study both the evolutions previous to the new road infrastructure and the …
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