of assets subject to a baseline level of disaster risk. While cat risk models are used extensively by the insurance and … damages in influencing total disaster costs, and issues related to generalizing disaster response functions across different … domains. The paper ends by noting the large discrepancy between the current state of the literature on disaster impacts on …

the introduction of disaster funds, that is, ex-ante budgeting allocations for post-disaster reconstruction. So far the … implementation of disaster funds has been limited, in part because it is still unclear whether disaster funds provide a cost … reconstruction funds in Mexico, this paper provides some of the first estimates of the impact of disaster funds on local economic …

This paper proposes a framework for ex ante evaluation of sovereign disaster risk finance instruments available to … governments for funding disaster losses. The framework can be used by governments to help choose between different financial … disaster losses, taking into account the risk of disasters, economic conditions, and political constraints. The paper discusses …

help resolve these commitment problems. Using a simple model of disaster risk finance is used to identify three distinct … illustrates how these commitment problems play out using examples from around the world, and demonstrates where risk transfer …

development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …

-taker smaller firms. A regulation trade-off between market efficiency and resilience is identified and quantified: improving the …