This article reviews the literature on the financial sector impacts of natural disasters and
physical climate change risks, covering banking, insurance, stock markets, bond markets …

Flood adaptation measures such as levees, flood-proofing structures, nature-based
solutions and flood insurance are essential to cope with the growing flood risk caused by …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

We use firm-level data that measure forward-looking physical climate risk to examine the
impact of climate risk on capital structure. We find that greater physical climate risk leads to …

ABSTRACT I describe asset price dynamics caused by the slow movement of investment
capital to trading opportunities. The pattern of price responses to supply or demand shocks …

As climate risk escalates, property insurance is critical to reduce the risk exposure of
households and firms and to aid recovery when disasters strike. To perform these functions …

Natural disasters can have important impacts on an individual's decision to purchase
insurance. The literature primarily focuses on the impact of natural disasters on the decision …

We present a model for the equilibrium movement of capital between asset markets that are
distinguished only by the levels of capital invested in each. Investment in that market with the …

After the Wenchuan earthquake (magnitude 7.9, May 12, 2008), intensive debates on how
China should establish a natural disaster insurance system were initiated among …

The article investigates whether the market concentration is associated with an insurer's
financial stability in the US property–liability insurance industry over the period 1992–2010 …