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insurance shape urbanization, but their efficiency is limited by hazard-map precision. Map-based discrimination being …
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industrial risks. Each chapter provides some elements of policies assessment and analyzes in particular links between insurance … and urbanism policies (Chapter 2), between insurance and collective prevention policies (Chapter 3), between insurance and …
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insurance policies. The risk-map paradox that we describe explains why an insurance system with simplistic maps and tariffs is … the rule. Indeed, in practice we observe simple policies, consisting of a prohibited red zone and a zone without insurance …
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Recent surveys report the increasing number of muddy flows in many areas, and point out the fact that agricultural practices (among others) influence significantly the risk and severity of muddy flows. In this paper, we investigate the economic incentives that can be given to the farmer to adopt...
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, we show that by extending insurance to 100% penetration, the indirect effects of flooding could be almost halved. As …
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and proximity. Additionally, these cyclones prompt individuals to acknowledge the significance of home-related insurance … and actively seek coverage. Alongside long-distance domestic migration, insurance acquisition emerges as another … among these coping strategies depends on factors such as cyclone severity, age, prior homeownership, income, insurance …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability of … Belize's public finance to the occurrence of hurricanes and the potential impact of insurance instruments in reducing that … vulnerability. The paper finds that catastrophic risk insurance significantly improves Belize's debt sustainability. In addition …
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