financed centrally. This paper builds a model of portfolio allocation with heterogeneity in disaster risk exposure, and with a … discrimination by risk exposure is unfeasible. In this situation, the model shows that the regulator is willing to invest … of nuclear risk in France …

-varying risk of economic disaster. Both asset prices and macroeconomic aggregates respond to this time-varying risk. The model is … prices. An increase in the risk of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, with no current or future …Most macroeconomic models fail to replicate the level, volatility, and countercyclicality of risk premia which has been …

Index triggers have enabled the extension of insurance to disaster risks by providing a simple mechanism to determine … insurance payment. Disaster risks are notoriously difficult to insure against due to the covariant nature of risks, moral hazard … and adverse selection. Index based risk transfer minimizes these obstacles by not fully insuring the risk. However, such …

or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment …This paper examines households' self-insurance in financial markets when a rare personal disaster, such as disability … choices, even if most workers will not experience a disaster. Uncertainty about the size of human capital losses, which …

balance in the context of climate catastrophic risk. The investigation enriches an integrated assessment model introducing the … caused by GHG emissions, and ultimately abatement choices. Results indicate that the presence of catastrophic risk induces … responsiveness of mitigation to changes in adaptation decreases. Compared to a world without climate catastrophes, risk reduces the …