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Expected utility and catastrophic risk
Ikefuji, Masako; Laeven, Roger; Magnus, Jan R.; Muris, Chris - 2014
An expected utility based cost-benefit analysis is in general fragile to its distributional assumptions. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions on the utility function of the expected utility model to avoid this. The conditions ensure that expected (marginal) utility remains finite also...
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The politics of uncertainty : challenges of transformation
Scoones, Ian (ed.); Stirling, Andy (ed.) - 2020
’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change …
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Natural disaster risk management and financing disaster losses in developing countries
Mechler, Reinhard - 2004
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Credit when you need it
Collier, Benjamin L.; Hartley, Daniel A.; Keys, Benjamin J. - 2024
We estimate the causal effect of emergency credit on households' finances after a negative shock. To do so, we link application data from the U.S. Federal Disaster Loan program, which provides loans to households that have uninsured damages from a federally-declared natural disaster, to a panel...
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Disaster risk financing : main concepts & evidence from EU member states
Radu, Diana - 2021
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Governance, Risk and Financial Impact of Mega Disasters : Lessons from Japan
Kamesaka, Akiko (ed.); Waldenberger, Franz (ed.) - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019
and Policies -- Chapter 3 Analysis of the Possible Impact of a Tokyo Mega Earthquake on Japanese Public Finance -- Chapter … government finance, debt positions of private household and businesses, capital markets, and investor behavior by way of economic … Japanese government as a provider of disaster-risk finance and an active partner in international collaboration. It concludes …
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Are the Pacific Islands insurable? : challenges and opportunities for disaster risk finance
Ramachandran, Vijaya; Masood, Junaid Sadiq - 2019
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Governance, risk and financial impact of mega disasters : lessons from Japan
Kamesaka, Akiko (ed.); Waldenberger, Franz (ed.) - Governance and Financial Aspects of … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136123
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Disaster risk financing : a global survey of practices and challenges
2015
The publication "provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing practices of a broad range of economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. Based on survey responses provided by 29 economies, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404242
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Disaster Risk Financing : A global survey of practices and challenges
2015
The publication provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing practices of a broad range of economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. The publications is based on survey responses provided by 29...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447346