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Risk attitudes to catastrophic events : VSL and WTP for insurance against earthquakes

Barbieri, Nicolò; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; … - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 6 (2022) 2, pp. 317-337

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Index insurance quality and basis risk : evidence from northern Kenya

Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Mude, … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 98 (2016) 5, pp. 1450-1469

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Catastrophic Risks and First-Party Insurance

Faure, Michael G.; Bruggeman, Véronique - 2009

viable alternative to government compensation. Further, we wonder whether compulsory first-party disaster coverage could be a …

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Flood Risk Insurance : A Micro-Economic Foundation

Boonen, Tim J.; Chong, Wing Fung; Ghossoub, Mario - 2022

Flood risk has consistently been ranked as one of the major emerging risks, with the potential of having a substantial systemic impact on the insurance industry. In this paper, we provide a micro-economic foundation for a flood risk insurance market. Specifically, we characterize Pareto-optimal...

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Disaster insurance reimagined : protection in a time of increasing risk

Jarzabkowski, Paula; Chalkias, Konstantinos; … - 2023

-political instability are making disaster insurance increasingly expensive or unavailable. Given their growing importance, understanding the … role of PGEs in both insurance protection and their potential to create a more resilient society is critical. Disaster … Insurance Reimagined uses practical examples from different countries to explain how PGEs step in to maintain disaster insurance …

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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks

Millner, Antony - 2013

Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...

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Long-term growth effects of natural disasters : empirical evidence for droughts

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...

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Climate change, armed conflicts and resilience

D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022

In recent years, there has been rapid development of the literature linking climate change and armed conflicts. Although no conclusionary evidence has been found of a direct link between climate change and armed conflicts, still climate change has been addressed as an important trigger,...

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The links between climate change, disasters, migration, and social resilience in Asia : a literature review

Ober, Kayly - 2019

shows that planned and sustained movement may help individuals weather shocks and diversify income in the face of disaster …, as well as the uneven outcomes of disaster-related remittances in Asia. In addition, it gives insight into predicted … diverse ways in which disaster-related migration may affect economic growth and social resilience in Asia. …

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How do natural disasters affect services trade?

Xu, Ankai; Kouwoaye, Amèvi Rocard - 2019 - Manuscript date: 6 December 2019

exports of the affected country but have ambiguous effects on its services imports. On average, a large natural disaster can … by a large natural disaster, with the negative impact on communications exports lasting for up to five years after a … disaster. We also find consistently across all estimations that the negative impact of natural disasters on services trade is …

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