In July of 1998, Bangladesh was in the grip of the worst flood of its history. It damaged a lot of assets all over the country. About two-thirds of the country was inundated, BRAC's micro-credit borrowers were affected seriously by the flood. They are normally in a vulnerable situation because...

Los inversores institucionales, conscientes de la necesidad de incorporar el cambio climático como un factor de riesgo adicional en la gestión de carteras, muestran un apetito creciente por la integración de criterios de Inversión Sostenible y Responsable (ISR) en sus procesos de inversión....

Rationale The 2015 Paris Agreement is a milestone in the global fight against climate change. Against this backdrop, and as a result of credit institutions’ alignment with the agreement, it is important to analyse its impact on lending to firms. Takeaways •The 2015 Paris Agreement represents...

¿Cómo deberían diseñarse los requerimientos de capital bancarios para hacer frente a los riesgos financieros derivados de la transición climática? Para responder a esta pregunta, primero, desarrollamos un modelo macroeconómico bancario de equilibrio general en el cual el sector productivo...

Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and retaining commercial and residential customers through better service, educating customers on their exposure and vulnerabilities to natural disasters, collaborating with government...

The importance and need for full compliant implementation of NIMS nationwide was clearly demonstrated during the Hurricane Katrina event, which was clearly expressed in Secretary Chertoff's October 4, 2005 letter addressed to the State's governors. It states, ''Hurricane Katrina was a stark...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Fire Protection Program is delineated in a number of source documents including; the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), DOE Policy Statements and Orders, DOE and national consensus standards (such as those promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association),...

Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and retaining commercial and residential customers through better service, educating customers on their exposure and vulnerabilities to natural disasters, collaborating with government...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Australian agricultural firms display big bath behaviour during droughts by recognising extraordinary and abnormal losses. It is hypothesised that Australian agricultural firms are more likely to report big bath losses in drought years...