Dealing with the consequences of climate change will put an increasing burden on public and private finances. We use the example of floods in a survey experiment among 8,000 German households to elicit households' preferences for climate adaptation policies. In Germany, as in many countries, we...

Flutereignisse als Folge von Extremwetter haben negative Folgen für Unternehmen und die regionale Wirtschaft. Die hohen Staatshilfen für unversicherte Schäden durch die Flutkatastrophe im Juli 2021 in Deutschland führten zu einer Diskussion über die richtige Risikoaufteilung zwischen Staat...

Subsidised insurance against extreme weather events improves its affordability among households in high-risk areas but it can weaken the risk signal via property prices. Leveraging a granular data set of all property transactions and flooding in England, we study the effects of a reinsurance...

Using a nationally representative panel of consumer credit records for the US from 1999 to 2021, we document a positive correlation between child and parent homeownership. We propose a new causal mechanism behind this relationship based on parents extracting home equity to help finance their...