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Climate change causes natural disasters to occur at higher frequency and increased severity. Using a unique dataset on German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning following the severe summer flood of 2013, which...
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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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This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...
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. Using unique panel data, we find that households who report storm damage increased their risk taking. We do not find … evidence of exposure to storm per see (regardless of damage experience), which suggests that households have to suffer damage … and alternative storm damage measures (magnitude of financial damage). We rule out other potential explanations such as …
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The perception of risks resulting from climate change is a key factor in motivating individual adaptation and prevention behavior, as well as for the support of climate policy measures. Using a generalized ordered logit approach and drawing on a unique data set originating from two surveys...
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. Using unique panel data, we find that households who report storm damage increased their risk taking. We do not find … evidence of exposure to storm per se (regardless of damage experience), which suggests that households have to suffer damage … and alternative storm damage measures (magnitude of financial damage). We rule out other potential explanations such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993572
Die Wahrnehmung von Risiken, die mit dem Klimawandel einhergehen, wird als wesentlicher Faktor für die Unterstützung …
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the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown …
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In this paper, we estimate, model and forecast Realized Range Volatility, a new realized measure and estimator of the … distribution for the innovations. The analysis of the forecast performance during the different periods suggests that including the …
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In this paper, we propose a comprehensive Public Choice framework to identify and categorize barriers to efficient public climate adaptation. Specifically, we distinguish three dimensions of public adaptation: extent, structure (form and timing) and organisation (vertical and horizontal). Within...
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