-surplus regions suggest that in situations where all producers are subjected to a common source of risk (e.g. rainfall): I …

experience of such disasters affects the perception of the risk of nuclear accidents. Estimation results show that the perceived … risk of a nuclear accident is positively associated with experiencing technological disasters but not with that of natural …

, attitudes toward risk, stand value, and the magnitude and frequency of the public compensation on insurance expenditures and on … invest in insurance and protective measures prior to a disaster. …

disasters has affected corruption within the public sector. There are a number of new findings from this study. (1) Disaster …, frequency of occurrence of disaster plays important role on increasing corruption. This suggests that foreseeable disasters … increase corruption. In developed countries, people have an incentive to live within disaster-prone areas to seek compensation. …

The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing … coffee farmers in Costa Rica. As expected, we find high levels of risk aversion, but even using that as a baseline, we … further find that farmers behave even more cautiously when the setting is characterized by unknown or ambiguous risk (i …