.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 …

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

Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low. Insurance density could … rise if index-based insurance (IBI) were provided as an alternative to traditional damage-based insurance (DBI). We analyze …

transactions of non-agency RMBS by insurance companies from 2006 to 2009, we show that insurance companies that became more capital … at much lower prices than other insurance companies during the crisis …

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

. 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 …