model a general equilibrium productive economy where financial intermediaries provide costly risk mitigation to households …This paper studies the impact of financial sector size and leverage on business cycles and risk-free rates dynamics. We … intermediaries' relative size, but may also mitigate the business cycle. Moreover, it makes risk-free rates pro-cyclical. Households …

the earthquake risk is an immense task by any standard. This paper provides a status report on the current earthquake risk … mitigation efforts taken by the museums in Turkey. It summarizes several projects that have been carried out over the past few …

Seismic risk scenarios are obtained for an informal settlement in Mérida (Venezuela), which is representative of an …

disaster across treatments. Our results show that there is no significant difference in the level of mitigation across these … potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … within-group levels of mitigation. We compare low-vulnerability and high-vulnerability treatments by varying the magnitude of …

in the country is questionable. In the Marmara region the earthquake hazard is very high with a 2% annual probability of …

scales and revealed risk perceptions. Results showed that how often respondents report thinking about a hazard day … different risks, but it is hard to measure risk perceptions in a neutral, unbiased way. In a pre-registered experiment with a … nationally representative sample (N = 800), we tested the effects of survey instructions on perceived risk from common …

the mitigation/adaptation trade-off. The first model presents climate change as a certain disaster, while the second … of mitigation for both models. The effect of vulnerability towards climate change is also examined by varying the … magnitude of the disaster across treatments. Our results find no significant difference between the high and low …

' adoption choices are affected by profit and risk considerations and by credit and biophysical constraints. New technologies … reactive and proactive adaptation. The latter is important in the context of climate change and consists of mitigation …