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Protecting against disaster risks: why insurance and prevention may be complements
Botzen, W. J. Wouter; Kunreuther, Howard; … - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty : JRU 59 (2019) 2, pp. 151-169
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Pareto-efficient risk sharing in centralized insurance markets with application to flood risk
Boonen, Tim J.; Chong, Wing Fung; Ghossoub, Mario - In: The journal of risk & insurance 91 (2024) 2, pp. 449-488
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Risk perception, location choice and land-use patterns under disaster risk : long-term consequences of information provision in a spatial economy
Tatano, Hirokazu; Yamaguchi, Kentaro; Okada, Norio - In: Modeling spatial and economic impacts of disasters : …, (pp. 163-177). 2004
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Aggregate impacts of natural and man-made disasters : a quantitative comparison
Sawada, Yasuyuki; Bhattcharyay, Rima; Kotera, Tomoaki - 2011
In recent decades, the world has faced an increasing number of natural and man-made disasters. Such disasters include tsunamis, earthquakes, the current ongoing financial crisis, terrorism, riots, and wars. These disasters generate tremendous social and economic costs, especially for the poor in...
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Investment, expectations and uncertainty
Driver, Ciaran F. - 1992 - 1. publ.
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Investment under threat of disaster
Gries, Thomas; Bilkicm, Natasa - 2014
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Disasters Risk and Business Cycles
Gourio, Francois - 2010
probability of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, an increase in risk spreads, and a decrease in the … shocks to aggregate uncertainty, I introduce a small, time-varying risk of economic disaster in a standard real business … cycle model. The paper establishes two simple theoretical results: first, when the probability of disaster is constant, the …
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Disaster Risk and Business Cycles
Gourio, Francois - 2010
prices. An increase in the risk of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, with no current or future …-varying risk of economic disaster. Both asset prices and macroeconomic aggregates respond to this time-varying risk. The model is … risky securities increase. To assess the empirical validity of the model, I infer the probability of disaster from observed …
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Resource depletion and capital accumulation under catastrophic risk : policy actions against stochastic thresholds and stock pollution
Nævdal, Eric; Vislie, Jon - 2013 - This version October 2, 2013
An intertemporal optimal strategy for accumulation of reversible capital and management of an exhaustible resource is analyzed for a global economy when resource depletion generates discharges that add to a stock pollutant that affects the likelihood for hitting a tipping point or threshold of...
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Disasters Risk and Business Cycles
Gourio, François - 2009
probability of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, an increase in risk spreads, and a decrease in the … shocks to aggregate uncertainty, I introduce a small, time-varying risk of economic disaster in a standard real business … cycle model. The paper establishes two simple theoretical results: first, when the probability of disaster is constant, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463250