This disaster risk finance (DFR) diagnostic was prepared by the World Bank Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice in response to a request from the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) for a study to assess the institutional, legal, and financial planning for financing of disaster risk...

This study examines the geographical spillover of the state-level average homeowners insurance cost for 48 US contiguous states. We estimate a panel spatial Durbin model with state and year fixed effect for data between 2001 and 2018. We found a significant positive spillover of average...

This paper proposes a possible EU-level solution to address the widening gap in natural catastrophe insurance protection in Europe. Increased economic exposure and the growing frequency and severity of natural catastrophes linked to climate change have been driving up the cost of natural...