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This paper uses a random utility model to examine stated preferences for the valuation of public risks of fatalities from terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Traffic-related deaths serve as the common reference point in two series of pairwise risk-risk tradeoff choices. Even after taking...
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Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...
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way the Munich Re dealt with the challenge of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. …
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and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and … January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead …
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This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …
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are two districts where the vulnerabilities to the earthquake in the two districts are different. That is, Toyohashi City … is divided into two districts, one is safe for the earthquake while another one is risky for the earthquake. And then … the same damage when the earthquake occurs. However, if disaster risk information is provided, the land rent shows a …
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The rapid growth over recent decades of the impact of natural disasters on economies, especially in vulnerable areas, urges stakeholders to promote innovative solutions involving risk transfers that account for the new risk exposures. These proposed solutions are designed to optimize and...
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