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 …

We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk … the flood zone and its periphery. The reform had highly heterogeneous effects on insurance costs and triggered adjustments … in coverage and deductibles. On average, RR2 increased costs for renewers outside of the flood zone but lowered them for …

Many studies have investigated flood risk and insurance coverage in the 100-year flood zone, but much less is known … about the periphery of the flood zone. We present a new approach to estimate flood risk and insurance take-up in the … vicinity of the flood zone based on building-level inundation data. We illustrate our approach using data for New York after …

of climate change manifest. We study how the cost of hedging disaster risk changes home prices by utilizing a 2012 law … that mandated flood insurance premium increases for properties discontinuously around flood zone boundaries and based on … the timing of construction. With a triple-difference design, we estimate that a $1 increase in annual flood insurance …

The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk … assume greater financial risk in the short-term while rebuilding their lives after the disaster …

This paper proposes an application of the analytical path assembled within my PhD research on Disaster Risk Creation … (DRC) in humanitarian contexts, to Flood Risk Management (FRM) planning in Italy. The investigation concerns some key … challenges, for spatial planning and disaster risk management, in understanding, evaluating, and addressing Disaster Risk (DR …

Exploiting the exogenous nature of flood timings in the United States, we study how floods influence outflow and inflow … information nudge. We further find that this replacement effect causes a depression in housing prices in affected areas post-flood …

Little is known about how affected residents are able to cope with the financial shock of a natural disaster. We … larger reductions in total debt. Lower debt levels appear to be driven by homeowners using flood insurance to repay their …