Breckner, Miriam; Englmaier, Florian; Stowasser, Till and Sunde, Uwe
(2016):
Resilience to natural disasters Insurance penetration, institutions, and disaster types.
In: Economics Letters, Vol. 148: pp. 106-110
Abstract
Using newly available data, this note provides new evidence suggesting that private insurance penetration mitigates the negative economic effects of natural disasters. The results document heterogeneous effects across differentially institutionalized countries and across different disaster types.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Keywords: | Natural disasters; Economic development; Insurance penetration; Institutions; Complementarities |
Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > Chair for Population Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
JEL Classification: | O44, Q54, O43 |
ISSN: | 0165-1765 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 43492 |
Date Deposited: | 27. Apr 2018, 08:04 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:18 |