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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the … whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …
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2012 and 2014, each among more than 6,000 German households, we analyze the determinants of individual risk perception … associated with three kinds of natural hazards: heat waves, storms, and floods. Our focus is on the role of objective risk … are strong drivers of individual risk perception. …
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households, we analyze the determinants of individual risk perception associated with three kinds of natural hazards: heat waves …, storms, and floods. Our focus is on the role of objective risk measures and experience with these natural hazards, whose … experience with adverse events and, even more importantly, personal damage therefrom are strong drivers of individual risk …
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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the … whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993572
This paper discusses the problem of crowding out of insurance by co-existing governmental relief programs - so-called 'charity hazard' - in a context of different institutional schemes of governmental relief in Austria and Germany. We test empirically whether an assured partial relief scheme (as...
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Modeling the price risk of CO2 certificates is one important aspect of integral corporate risk management related to … emissions trading. The paper presents a risk model which may be the basis for evaluating the risk of emission certificate prices …
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Modeling the price risk of CO2 certificates is one important aspect of integral corporate risk management related to … emissions trading. The paper presents a risk model which may be the basis for evaluating the risk of emission certificate prices … expected reversion level and to estimate the parameters of the mean reversion process. -- risk ; carbon dioxide ; emissions …
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whether flood risk perception in the housing market changes across a country after the occurrence of a catastrophic fluvial … flood. Using a comprehensive geocoded German house price data set and official flood risk maps, we exploit the July 2021 … fluvial flood that was salient across Germany as an exogenous variation to causally measure the flood risk valuation update in …
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We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns, well-being, risk aversion, and political … the disaster significantly increased environmental concerns among Germans. One underlying mechanism likely operated … through the perceived risk of a similar meltdown of domestic reactors. After Fukushima, more Germans considered themselves as …
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This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of an adaptation of these systems to climate change and a growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of...
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