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Natural hazards insurance in Europe : tailored responses to climate change needed

Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009

This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of an adaptation of these systems to climate change and a growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of...

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On the channel and type of international disaster aid

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwindt, Manijeh - 2009

Research suggests that a donor country's decision to provide post-disaster assistance is not only driven by the … severity of a disaster and the resulting humanitarian needs in the recipient country but also by strategic considerations. We … argue that the identification of the determinants of the size of disaster assistance is a first step in the analysis of the …

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An econometric analysis of the demand surge effect

Döhrmann, David; Gürtler, Marc; Hibbeln, Martin - 2013

In case of a natural catastrophe there is an increased demand for skilled labor and materials which in turn leads to significant price increases that should be taken into account in the forecast of catastrophe losses. Such price effects are referred to as "Demand Surge" effects. The paper at...

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The tempest : natural disasters, early shocks and children's short- and long-run development

Deuchert, Eva; Felfe, Christina - 2013 - This draft: February, 2013

indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth. -- child development ; natural disaster ; wealth …

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Decentralization and natural disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013

disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …

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Environmental catastrophes under time-inconsistent preferences

Michielsen, Thomas - 2013

I analyze optimal natural resource use in an intergenerational model with the risk of a catastrophe. Each generation maximizes a weighted sum of discounted utility (positive) and the probability that a catastrophe will occur at any point in the future (negative). The model generates time-...

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Insured loss inflation : how natural catastrophes affect reconstruction costs

Döhrmann, David; Gürtler, Marc; Hibbeln, Martin - 2013 - Last revised: March 6, 2014

In the aftermath of a natural catastrophe, there is increased demand for skilled reconstruction labor, which leads to significant increases in reconstruction labor wages and hence insured losses. Such inflation effects are known as "Demand Surge" effects. It is important for insurance companies...

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Do floods have permanent effects? : evidence from the Netherlands

Husby, Trond G.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Hofkes, Marjan W.; … - 2013

This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population growth, but limited long term effects. In contrast, the...

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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...

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Natural disasters and private donations to NGOs : the effects of being present after the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

Kim, Youngwan; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Bagchi, Chandreyee - 2014

NGOs are widely perceived to raise their flag in humanitarian hot-spots with strong media presence in order to attract higher private donations. We assess this hypothesis by comparing the changes in donations between US-based NGOs with and without activities in the four countries most affected...

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