population. There is a widespread perception that property insurance is the most efficient and economical way to protect against … financial losses caused by natural disasters. Regardless of this fact, in many countries in the world, insurance against natural … suggest that the insura- nce of catastrophic risks should be organized as compulsory insurance for households in urban areas …

case of the Italian earthquake insurance. In this sense, we examine in detail the vulnerability definition and its … relevance for citizens and for insurance companies. Then we investigate the Italian insurance market characterized by a very low … penetration of natural disasters insurance and the potential effects of a recent Government initiative called “Sisma Bonus”. The …

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 …

from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery … event, more than 95% of residential housing units were covered by insurance, but insurance payments were staggered over 5 … and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of …

disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby … methods for financing based on experiences of other countries. Then the focus of the paper shifts towards insurance and … sectors.Despite the suite of reforms that have been initiated in shifting towards resilient infrastructure and disaster funds …

We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk … Rating 2.0, using individual insurance histories for all NFIP policies. The reform increased exit and reduced entry, both in … the flood zone and its periphery. The reform had highly heterogeneous effects on insurance costs and triggered adjustments …

In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … our model. Banks increased lending to the agricultural sector in counties with higher insurance coverage after 1980, even …

influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …