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The demand for index-based flood insurance in a high-income country

Achtnicht, Martin; Osberghaus, Daniel - 2016

Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low. Insurance density could rise if index-based insurance (IBI) were provided as an alternative to traditional damage-based insurance (DBI). We analyze whether there is potential for private demand for IBI...

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Natural disasters and human mobility

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016

This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...

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Environmental disasters and migration

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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Climate, urbanization, and conflict : the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder

Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019

In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in … hypothesis using a novel dataset on floods−distinguishing those that affected large cities directly from those that occurred … outside of our sample of large cities. Floods are found to be associated with faster growth of the population in the city, and …

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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country

Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015

While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...

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