This paper uses inter-country panel data from 1990 through 2010 to examine how the
occurrence of natural disasters affects corruption within the public sector. For a closer …

Nat Cat risks are not insurable by traditional insurance mainly because of producing highly
correlated losses. The source of such correlation among buildings of a region subject to a …

Insurance regulation has long been a subject of considerable interest to academics,
policymakers, and other stakeholders in the insurance industry. Among the areas explored …

How does catastrophe-risk awareness affect purchase decisions and selection patterns in
the insurance market? I study this issue using data on take-up rates of earthquake insurance …

California has a high seismic hazard, as many historical and recent earthquakes remind us.
To deal with potential future damaging earthquakes, a voluntary insurance system for …

Catastrophe insurance is a generic term applied to a range of insurance lines with the
common feature that claims are likely to be highly correlated across individual policies. The …

This chapter summarizes the considerable variation in limitations to “activities of daily living”
and associated expenditures on long-term care, with an emphasis on US data, then takes up …

A central concern for insurance markets is the possibility that limits to the ability to classify
risk will lead to problems of adverse selection. This study investigates this issue in the …

The demand for catastrophe insurance worldwide has remained low despite growing losses
due to natural disaster. This study investigates catastrophe insurance demand issues in the …

This dissertation investigates how the financial risk management practice of catastrophe
modelling is redefining the ontology of natural catastrophe. Drawing from and developing …