This paper explores the impacts of traditional agricultural insurance that offers protection against climatic shocks on … small-scale tobacco farmers in Colombia. We analyze the impacts of access to the insurance on household financial outcomes … natural experimental setup of the form in which the insurance was launched. We find that tobacco producers with access to the …

This paper is an overview of how insurance instruments could be used in Indonesia to improve disaster risk finance (the … arrangements for managing the financial consequences of disaster). We review the policy and research literature to describe the … community mapping movement to fill in some of the major gaps in data that hinder the assessment of disaster risks. We argue that …

costs but also to natural disaster risks. Costly insurance and charity donation both lead to low insurance purchase. While …Prevention and insurance are studied in an urban model with spatial heterogeneity due not only to commuting transport … the former leads to high prevention, the latter leads tolow prevention. In the presence of charity, implementing insurance …

efficiently manage climate change catastrophe risk is a universal challenge. Private insurance generally produces optimal outcomes … of catastrophe exposures. Insurance-linked securities (ILS) is a good tool to increase insurers' supply of catastrophe … insurance by enhancing insurers' capability, although its market is still in infancy. It implies that private market merits with …