This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country's level of mitigating activities. In order to test the theoretical propositions, the authors...

Research suggests that a donor country s decision to provide post-disaster assistance is not only driven by the severity of a disaster and the resulting humanitarian needs in the recipient country, but also by strategic considerations. The authors argue that the identification of the...

Mit diesem Buch wird beabsichtigt, den Zusammenhang zwischen der zunehmenden Belastung des privaten Sektors durch die öffentliche Verwaltung und der Entwicklung der Schattenwirtschaft mit Hilfe eines ökonomischen Ansatzes theoretisch zu analysieren und empirisch zu überprüfen. Da die Grösse...

Climate insurance has become a crucial issue due to the increasing number of climate-related catastrophic events and the associated losses for the economy in general and insurance companies in particular. The extremely hot and dry summers of 2018 and 2019 in some European countries highlighted...