The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation … of the individual and property risk targets. Selecting the largest and better studied class of “natural disasters” over … the period 1970-2018, we show that individual risk is “likely” falling, that property risk is neither rising nor falling …

fiscal policy and publicly-provided disaster insurance. Our policy conclusions point to the enhanced need to reach and …

risk and indemnify the damages caused by an earthquake, rather than on mitigation measures. This study assessed the impact … of quality infrastructure, development indicators and corruption on damages caused by a natural disaster using a panel … model, the study quantified the role of quality infrastructure in disaster impact mitigation. The empirical results suggest …

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …

behavior, For this purpose, we exploit a natural experiment stemming from the European Flood of August 2002, Combining micro … data with geo-coded flood maps allows us to analyze the causal impact of flood exposure on household savings within a … differences-in-differences setting, We find that flood exposure depresses household saving behavior in the medium run, The most …

. Based on these findings, we discuss implications for fiscal policy and publicly-provided disaster insurance. Our policy …