.3%-0.4%. Mandatory insurance regimes in Europe absorb the negative short-run effect of a flood, while the National Flood Insurance … proposition that ex ante risk transfer policies are more efficient than ex post disaster relief. -- natural hazards ; growth … ; insurance ; dynamic panel GMM …

We investigate the effect of the 20 largest in terms of insured losses man-made or natural disasters on the insurance … industry. We show via an event study that insurance markets worldwide are quite resilient to unexpected losses to capital and …

to their asset quality caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We find that independent banks based in the disaster areas …

The issues regarding catastrophic losses is quite an important factor to consider in the course of insurance and the … insurance premiums …

. Concurrently, the number and volume of flood insurance policies has been declining since 2008. Hence, households who have purchased … after a natural disaster that caused more than a billion dollar in damages. Results suggest a substantial increase in … securitization activity in years following such a billion-dollar disaster. Such increase is larger in neighborhoods for which such a …