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Reflections on U.S. Disaster Insurance Policy for the 21st Century

Kunreuther, Howard - 2006

The first section of the paper addresses the first question by outlining two principles on which a disaster insurance … question and delineates the opportunities and challenges of a comprehensive disaster insurance program. Section 5 poses a set … of open issues that are currently being addressed by a research project on disaster insurance undertaken by the Wharton …

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Underwater : loss, flood insurance, and the moral economy of climate change in the United States

Elliott, Rebecca - 2021

Introduction: Insurance and the problem of loss in a climate-changed United States -- Transforming the management of loss : the origins of the National Flood Insurance Program -- Losing ground : values at risk in an American floodplain -- Visions of loss : knowing and pricing flood risk --...

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Hazard-specific supply reactions in the aftermath of natural disasters

Lohmaier, Dominik - In: Insurance and capital market reactions to novel information, (pp. 5-43). 2016

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Mortgage finance in the face of rising climate risk

Ouazad, Amine; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2019

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The impact of natural disasters on insurers' profitability : evidence from Property/Casualty Insurance company in United States

Benali, Nadia; Feki, Rochdi - In: Research in international business and finance 42 (2017), pp. 1394-1400

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Household finance after a natural disaster : the case of hurricane Katrina

Gallagher, Justin; Hartley, Daniel - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 199-228

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Willingness to pay for Hurricane-Resistant home improvement programs: a choice experiment in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States

Vásquez, William F.; Mozumder, Pallab - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 1 (2017) 3, pp. 263-276

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2011

Using a unique dataset of insurance decisions by over 1,800 large U.S. corporations, this study provides the first empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We combine demand and supply data and apply a...

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Fifty Years of U.S. Natural Disaster Insurance Policy

Marcoux, Kendra; H. Wagner, Katherine R. - 2023

of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …

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Insurance systems in times of climate change : insurance of buildings against natural hazards

Quinto, Cornel - 2012

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