Housing prices can decrease because of proximity to hazardous industrial plants. This effect depends on households' perception of risk and can so be modified by events that change risk perception, such as technological risk prevention plans in France. The impact of these plans is difficult to...

French Abstract: En France, la crise économique de 2008 a nettement infléchi la façon dont les individus définissent les objectifs à assigner au système de protection sociale. Le Baromètre d’opinion de la direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques...

This study evaluates the impact of fuel prices on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly registration of new private cars in France from 2003 to 2007. Detailed information on the car holder enables us to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers. We...

Insurance coverage for natural disasters remains low in many exposed areas. A limited supply of insurance is commonly identified as a primary causal factor in this low insurance coverage. The French overseas departments provide a rare natural experiment of a well-developed supply of natural...

Prevention policies against flood, such as dams or levees, are commonly designed by local jurisdictions and for most they exert externalities on neighboring jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction chooses its collective prevention effort depending on the insurance system that covers its inhabitants. As...

Les Départements d’Outre Mer (DOM) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la métropole. Pourtant, les ménages y sont moins nombreux à être assurés contre les catastrophes naturelles. En France, l’assurance habitation inclut obligatoirement la garantie contre les catastrophes...

Les départements d'Outre-mer (Dom) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la France métropolitaine. Pourtant, seuls 52 % des ménages des Dom ont souscrit pour leur résidence principale une assurance habitation, qui inclut obligatoirement la couverture des catastrophes naturelles, alors...