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Small-Scale Crisis Events Impact on Price Discovery and Volatiliy Transmission Across Financial Markets : Evidence from Terror Attacks, Assassinations, North-Korean Saber-Rattling,...
Jackson, Thad - 2018
We examine the impact of 51 terrorist attacks, three wars, an assassination, and other national security-related shocks on stock markets located in nations proximate to the crises and on American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of firms headquartered in those same nations. ADRs are securities that...
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Measuring the Impact of Natural Disasters on Capital Markets : An Empirical Application Using Intervention Analysis
Worthington, Andrew C.; Valadkhani, Abbas - 2005
The impact of natural disasters on the Australian equity market is examined. The data set employed consists of daily price and accumulation returns over the period 31 December 1982-1 January 2002 for the All Ordinaries Index (AOI) and a record of 42 severe storms, floods, cyclones, earthquakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066005
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Climate change, sea level rise, and coastal disasters : a review of modeling practices
Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica - 2013
The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of costal zones vulnerability. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225975
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Climate-related disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781147
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Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Coastal Disasters. A Review of Modeling Practices
Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica - 2014
The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been studied using very different approaches, such as very detailed site-specific engineering studies and global macroeconomic assessments of coastal zones vulnerability. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149917
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Indirect losses from natural disasters : measurement and myth
Cochrane, Harold C. - In: Modeling spatial and economic impacts of disasters : …, (pp. 37-52). 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003702651
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A re-examination of the U.S. Insurance Market’s Capacity to Pay Catastrophe Losses
Dionne, Georges; Desjardins, Denise - 2022
Cummins, Doherty, and Lo (2002) present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the capacity of the property liability insurance industry in the U.S. to finance catastrophic losses. In their theoretical analysis, they show that a sufficient condition for capacity maximization is for all insurers...
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Unmitigated Disasters? New Evidence on the Macroeconomic Cost of Natural Catastrophes
von Peter, Goetz - 2014
This paper presents a large panel study on the macroeconomic consequences of natural catastrophes and analyses the extent to which risk transfer to insurance markets facilitates economic recovery. Our main results are that major natural catastrophes have large and significant negative effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064802
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Fifty years of peril : a comprehensive comparison of the impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards (1970-2019)
Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022
We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two … impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger realised impact in all regions in both gross and per-capita terms. The largest … cross-peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million Lifeyears, while terrorism took ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337593
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State Government Catastrophe Risk Financing and the Capital Markets
Hildreth, W. Bartley - 2012
In recent years, certain states facing a high probability of catastrophic hurricane and earthquake exposures have added the burden of socializing the risk of individual and business property losses instead of leaving these private actions subject to voluntary insurance markets. In turn, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098694