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from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery … years, enabling us to identify their local impact. We find that night-time luminosity can capture the process of recovery … and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of …
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In recent years, insurance against natural disasters has gained recognition as an important tool for climate risk management that could, if carefully implemented, help increase the resilience of those insured. In response, insurance solutions are increasingly tested and applied in many countries...
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This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … and after the 2016 earthquake series. Similar to studies using the nighttime radiance to monitor disaster recovery and … months after the earthquakes were brighter relative to the changes of the unaffected villages, implying an improvement in …
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How does catastrophe-risk awareness affect selection patterns in catastrophe insurance markets? Catastrophe insurance is often provided by government entities and frequently involves substantial cross-subsidization between people facing very different levels of risk, which could generate adverse...
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from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery … years, enabling us to identify their local impact. We find that night-time luminosity can capture the process of recovery … and describe the recovery's determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of …
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On the 22nd of February 2011, much of the residential housing stock in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was damaged by an unusually destructive earthquake. Almost all of the houses were insured. We ask whether insurance was able to mitigate the damage adequately, or whether the damage from...
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On the 22nd of February 2011, much of the residential housing stock in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was damaged by an unusually destructive earthquake. Almost all of the houses were insured. We ask whether insurance was able to mitigate the damage adequately, or whether the damage from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288010