This paper investigates the role of private insurance in the prevention and mitigation of natural disasters. We characterize the equity-efficiency trade-off faced by the policymakers under imperfect information about individual prevention costs. It is shown that a competitive insurance market with actuarial ratemaking and compensatory tax-subsidy transfers is likely to dominate regulated uniform insurance pricing rules or state-funded assistance schemes. The model illustrates how targeted tax cuts on insurance contracts can improve the incentives to prevention, while compensating the individuales with high prevention costs. The paper also highlights the complementarity between individual incentives through tax cuts and collective incentives...
We model natural disaster insurance in France. We explicitly take into account the main institutiona...
It is widely recognized that market failure prevents efficient risk sharing in natural-disaster insu...
With increasing costs inflicted by natural hazard perils, and amidst state budget cuts, concerns ar...
This paper investigates the role of private insurance in the prevention and mitigation of natural di...
This article investigates the role of private insurance in the prevention and mitigation of natural ...
Egalement paru dans "Idées pour le débat" (IDDRI) ; 06/2002 Egalement paru dans THEMA Discussion Pap...
Les risques naturels ont un impact direct sur notre vie quotidienne, et notamment sur notre économ...
World economic losses due to natural disasters have increased faster than GDP in the last three deca...
Recently disaster risk insurance has received increasing attention scrutinizing its capacity to serv...
It is widely recognized that "market failure" prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster in...
À l'aide d'un modèle structurel des interactions entre les gouvernements, les entreprises et les ass...
It is widely recognized that market failure prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster insu...
Recent extreme events showed how insurers, deprived of reinsurance capacity at an affordable price, ...
The public sector should intervene in the natural disaster insurance market in order to increase eco...
L’objectif de cette thèse est de mener une réflexion sur les systèmes de couverture des risques de c...
We model natural disaster insurance in France. We explicitly take into account the main institutiona...
It is widely recognized that market failure prevents efficient risk sharing in natural-disaster insu...
With increasing costs inflicted by natural hazard perils, and amidst state budget cuts, concerns ar...
This paper investigates the role of private insurance in the prevention and mitigation of natural di...
This article investigates the role of private insurance in the prevention and mitigation of natural ...
Egalement paru dans "Idées pour le débat" (IDDRI) ; 06/2002 Egalement paru dans THEMA Discussion Pap...
Les risques naturels ont un impact direct sur notre vie quotidienne, et notamment sur notre économ...
World economic losses due to natural disasters have increased faster than GDP in the last three deca...
Recently disaster risk insurance has received increasing attention scrutinizing its capacity to serv...
It is widely recognized that "market failure" prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster in...
À l'aide d'un modèle structurel des interactions entre les gouvernements, les entreprises et les ass...
It is widely recognized that market failure prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster insu...
Recent extreme events showed how insurers, deprived of reinsurance capacity at an affordable price, ...
The public sector should intervene in the natural disaster insurance market in order to increase eco...
L’objectif de cette thèse est de mener une réflexion sur les systèmes de couverture des risques de c...
We model natural disaster insurance in France. We explicitly take into account the main institutiona...
It is widely recognized that market failure prevents efficient risk sharing in natural-disaster insu...
With increasing costs inflicted by natural hazard perils, and amidst state budget cuts, concerns ar...