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Insured loss inflation : how natural catastrophes affect reconstruction costs
Döhrmann, David; Gürtler, Marc; Hibbeln, Martin - 2013 - Last revised: March 6, 2014
In the aftermath of a natural catastrophe, there is increased demand for skilled reconstruction labor, which leads to significant increases in reconstruction labor wages and hence insured losses. Such inflation effects are known as "Demand Surge" effects. It is important for insurance companies...
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Property Insurance and Disaster Risk : New Evidence from Mortgage Escrow Data
Keys, Benjamin J.; Mulder, Philip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
associated with a stronger relationship between premiums and local disaster risk: A one standard-deviation increase in disaster …-through of reinsurance costs. Third, we project that if the reinsurance shock persists, growing disaster risk will lead climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576608
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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA : a dynamic panel approach
Raschky, Paul A. - 2007
proposition that ex ante risk transfer policies are more efficient than ex post disaster relief. -- natural hazards ; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731161
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A re-examination of the U.S. Insurance Market’s Capacity to Pay Catastrophe Losses
Dionne, Georges; Desjardins, Denise - 2022
Cummins, Doherty, and Lo (2002) present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the capacity of the property liability insurance industry in the U.S. to finance catastrophic losses. In their theoretical analysis, they show that a sufficient condition for capacity maximization is for all insurers...
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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA : a dynamic panel approach
Raschky, Paul - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003465138
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Fifty years of U.S. natural disaster insurance policy
Marcoux, Kendra; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2023
The high and increasing cost of natural disasters around the world motivates a growing body of literature on the role … of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281392
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Natural catastrophes : risk financing and insurance issues
Rohde, Oliver H. (ed.) - 2013
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Risking house and home : disasters, cities, public policy
Quigley, John M. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013189
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Underwater : loss, flood insurance, and the moral economy of climate change in the United States
Elliott, Rebecca - 2021
Introduction: Insurance and the problem of loss in a climate-changed United States -- Transforming the management of loss : the origins of the National Flood Insurance Program -- Losing ground : values at risk in an American floodplain -- Visions of loss : knowing and pricing flood risk --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229882
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An econometric analysis of the demand surge effect
Döhrmann, David; Gürtler, Marc; Hibbeln, Martin - 2013
In case of a natural catastrophe there is an increased demand for skilled labor and materials which in turn leads to significant price increases that should be taken into account in the forecast of catastrophe losses. Such price effects are referred to as "Demand Surge" effects. The paper at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712472