We investigate the economic impact of stochastic endogenous extreme events and insurance in a growth model. Our … analytical results and computational experiments show that i) transparency of the insurance sector is the decisive requisite for … insurance fairly is preferable to an insurance industry which provides insurance with an overhead. …

minimum level of flood insurance penetration, and the resulting increment in total premiums required to achieve this objective … insurance protection. Third, the paper proposes a stylised approach to quantify economic losses associated with uninsured flood … events at different levels of insurance penetration, allowing to take into account that insurance protection could be partly …