Federal disaster insurance - in the form of national flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA …

with equity/affordability issues. The National Flood Insurance Program in the United States has recently shifted toward …

a statistical numeracy boost and then elicits individual risk beliefs and demand for flood insurance using a contingent …-to-pay (WTP) for flood insurance, this paper finds that the affective and informational nudges result in increases in WTP for … flood insurance of roughly $21/month and $11/month relative to the boost, respectively. Taken together, the findings of this …

Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate … paper we investigate if and how current EU policies influence flood insurance. While the question of supply and demand is at … reflect on the national policy level, by illustrating two conflicting cases of flood insurance: the United Kingdom (UK), where …

Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low. Insurance density could … damage data for a major flood in 2013. We find IBI to attract similar customers as DBI, while DBI is preferred on average …

This study examines the redistributional effects of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) using a national …

Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate … paper we investigate if and how current EU policies influence flood insurance. While the question of supply and demand is at … reflect on the national policy level, by illustrating two conflicting cases of flood insurance: the United Kingdom (UK), where …

Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low. Insurance density could … damage data for a major flood in 2013. We find IBI to attract similar customers as DBI, while DBI is preferred on average …

natural disasters. We examine flood insurance market penetration using household level survey data. We address endogeneity of … households that exhibit confidence in disaster assistance payments are 25 to 42 percent less likely to hold flood insurance. We … of $526 million in forgone yearly revenue for the National Flood Insurance Program. We offer some policy recommendations …

minimum level of flood insurance penetration, and the resulting increment in total premiums required to achieve this objective … investigates the extra premiums needed to close the flood protection gap by requiring all EU countries to reach a minimum level of … insurance protection. Third, the paper proposes a stylised approach to quantify economic losses associated with uninsured flood …