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natural catastrophes. Amidst budgetary cuts, there is a growing concern on societies' ability to design solvent disaster …
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The paper analyzes the scope for the private market for pandemic insurance and discusses the potential role of the financial market and the government. Building on a premise that pandemics are classified as catastrophic risks by the insurance industry, we start by providing a framework that...
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financial losses caused by natural disasters. Regardless of this fact, in many countries in the world, insurance against natural … each country. For these reasons, the paper analyses various world experiences, taking into account countries with different … solution, the principles of insurance should be used, and the world practice indicates that it is possible only with the …
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costs but also to natural disaster risks. Costly insurance and charity donation both lead to low insurance purchase. While …
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's New Zealand earthquake to the rest of the world.This paper finds that the Japanese case is more typical: losses from … natural disasters are shared internationally to a generally very limited extent. This finding of home bias in disaster risk … international sharing of disaster risk. For advanced economies, a lack of international risk-sharing is correlated with a lack of …
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effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to … spell out policy needs. Empirically the link between carbon dioxide emission and the frequency of climate related disaster …
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Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate about the role of EU policy in shaping the future of this compensation tool is led by policy makers and industry. In this paper we investigate if and how current EU policies...
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Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate about the role of EU policy in shaping the future of this compensation tool is led by policy makers and industry. In this paper we investigate if and how current EU policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022838
CAT bonds are important instruments for the insurance of catastrophe risk. Due to a low degree of deal standardization, there is uncertainty about the determination of the CAT bond premium. In addition, it is not apparent how CAT bonds react after the financial crisis or a natural catastrophe....
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Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to 'fat-tailed' risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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