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It is widely recognized that ?market failure? prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster insurance. As a …
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This paper focuses on the results of the research work carried out by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) within the WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very warm summers, mild winters and storms, on the...
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This paper focuses on the results of the research work carried out by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) within the WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very warm summers, mild winters and storms, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324910
The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific, amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in publicly available databases for the world,...
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. Based on these findings, we discuss implications for fiscal policy and publiclyprovided disaster insurance. Our policy …
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, in contrast to traditional reinsurance, this kind of coverage cannot be a perfect hedge for the primary’s insured … transaction costs compared to (re)insurance products. Insurance coverage usually incurs costs of acquisition, monitoring and loss …, therefore, we introduce a simple model that enables us to analyze cat bonds and reinsurance as substitutional risk management …
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Traditionally, insurance risks are borne in reinsurance markets. In 1990s, however, after the sequence of huge natural … disasters and huge insurance payments, the reinsurance markets reduced its capability to bear risks, especially those related to … reinsurance capacity by transferring insurance risks to the capital markets. The CAT (catastrophe) index futures is one of the …
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Die Häufigkeit großer Wetterkatastrophen hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich zugenommen. Dies betrifft auch die Versicherungsbranche, die einen Anstieg der wetterbedingten Schadensfälle registriert. Der Beitrag fasst die Entwicklung zusammen und zeigt, dass die Versicherungswirtschaft...
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vergleichbaren Anstiege. Daher liegt es nahe, dass der Klimawandel hierbei eine entscheidende Rolle spielt, was durch die Ergebnisse …
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of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …
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