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Disaster insurance in developing Asia: An analysis of market-based schemes
Surminski, Swenja; Panda, Architesh; Lambert, Peter John - 2019
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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The SSM at 1
Laeven, Luc; Draghi, Mario; Dombret, Andreas; Angeloni, … - 2016
On February 3-4, 2016 SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum –, Deutsche Bundesbank and Stiftung Geld und Währung jointly organized a Colloquium/Conference in Frankfurt in order to evaluate the experience with the SSM – the Single Supervisory Mechanism – during the first year of...
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Measuring the Impact of Insurance on Urban Recovery with Light: The 2010-2011 New Zealand Earthquakes
Nguyen, Cuong; Noy, Ilan - 2018
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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Vulnerability to natural disasters and insurance: Insights from the Italian case
De Masi, Francesco; Porrini, Donatella - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-12
The aim of this article is to analyze the concept of 'vulnerability' to natural disasters, focusing on the specific case of the Italian earthquake insurance. In this sense, we examine in detail the vulnerability definition and its relevance for citizens and for insurance companies. Then we...
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Debt sustainability under catastrophic risk: The case for government budget insurance
Borensztein, Eduardo; Cavallo, Eduardo; Valenzuela, Patricio - 2007
Natural disasters are an important source of vulnerability in the Caribbean region. Despite being one of the more disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability of Belize's public finance to the occurrence of hurricanes...
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Natural disasters and the demand for health insurance
Mitrou, Francis - 2024
Amidst growing concerns over heightened natural disaster risks, this study pioneers an inquiry into the causal impacts of cyclones on the demand for private health insurance (PHI) in Australia. We amalgamate a nationally representative longitudinal dataset with historical cyclone records,...
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Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
alternative coping mechanism, effectively mitigating future repair costs. Extensive heterogeneity analyses reveal that the choice …
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Build back better: What is it, and what should it be?
Noy, Ilan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019
is full of aspirational plans to "build back better" (BBB) - a recovery that leads to improvements above and beyond the …
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Natural disasters and human mobility
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016
This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...
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Natural Disasters and Regional Development - The Case of Earthquakes
Fabian, Marius; Leßmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019
We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … geophysical event data on earthquakes together with satellite nighttime lights. Using panel fixed effects regressions covering the … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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