The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation …

of quality infrastructure, development indicators and corruption on damages caused by a natural disaster using a panel … data from 14 Asia and Pacific countries for 2007-2017. Using the generalized method of moments and vector error correction … model, the study quantified the role of quality infrastructure in disaster impact mitigation. The empirical results suggest …

insurance protection scheme with a parametric mechanism. To determine the triggering parameter of the insurance pay-out, the …

This paper estimates the growth impact of disasters, with a focus on developing Asia and its subregions. It finds that … because disaster effects tend to be highly localized and get diluted in the context of cross-country regressions with …

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …

Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely … decades. Using the typhoon landfalls and damage in Asia, we analyze the wind-damage relationship and find damages to gross … of development gains and exacerbate inequality. To cope with increasing disaster risks, both short-term adaptation …

This paper estimates the growth impact of disasters, with a focus on developing Asia and its subregions. It finds that … because disaster effects tend to be highly localized and get diluted in the context of cross-country regressions with …

Stock Exchange-100 index), Banking, and Insurance sectors. We calculated the abnormal returns with the help of market … insurance sector returns, while insignificant impact on KSE-100 index. Natural disasters have an insignificant impact on stock … insurance and stock market returns. Earthquakes showed a negative effect on the stock market returns whilst no significant …

In crisis times, insurance companies might feel the pressure to present a performance of their investment portfolios … influences insurance firms' decisions on the allocation of credit risk bearing assets in their investment portfolio. I find …