in providing flood insurance in the United States. This topic that has garnered considerable interest given the problems … facing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). There are many advocates of "privatization" in some form as they see it … companies to offer flood insurance on their own paper noting that there are other schemes that could be employed that would fall …

observed event. I use a new nation-wide panel dataset of large regional floods and flood insurance policies to show that … insurance take-up spikes the year after a flood and then steadily declines to baseline. Residents in non-flooded communities in …

number of people. Yet today most households are uninsured, or underinsured, against flood losses and may incorrectly perceive … delayed in the post-disaster period. This paper synthesizes existing research on the nature of flood risk and the housing … household balance sheets. We also consider flood risk externalities affecting the housing market more broadly …

role. It then situates the contemporary flood-of-lawyers problem in the unavailability of well-paid legal work, not in the …