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This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is …
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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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results. To shed a light on these questions, we analyse a sample of 69 transition risk metrics delivered by 9 different … climate transition risk providers and covering the 1,500 firms of the MSCI World index. Our findings show that convergence … between metrics is significantly higher for the firms most exposed to transition risk. We also show that metrics with similar …
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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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When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies - such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation - should be part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities....
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Despite the relevant fire risk to which Italy is subject from the north to the south, very few analyses focus on this … affects fire risk, the impact of livestock depends on its specific composition. Favorable effects in fire reduction are …
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This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...
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The paper compares the policy choices regarding risk-transfer against low-probability-high-loss events between elected … managers are more likely to adopt federal risk-transfer regimes. It is argued that the variation in the level of insurance …
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Kahn (2005) found that ethnic heterogeneity reduces the number of deaths caused by natural disasters, a finding that is contrary to theoretical predictions. This paper casts doubt on this finding and uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to conduct a re-estimation. To alleviate omitted...
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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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