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In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … and adverse weather shocks - over-exposure of crops to heat and acute weather events - to investigate some insights from …
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New Zealand's public insurer, the Earthquake Commission (EQC), provides residential insurance for some weather … between extreme precipitation events and the EQC's weather-related insurance claims based on a complete dataset of all claims …-related damage. Climate change and the expected increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather-related events are likely to …
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How will the increased frequency of coastal inundation events induced by sea level rise impact residential insurance … premiums, and when would insurance contracts be withdrawn? We model the contribution of localised sea level rise to the … when insurance retreat is likely to occur. We find that as sea level rise changes the frequency of inundation events, 99 …
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather andpollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061047
The Paris Agreement requires policy makers to keep the increase in global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Furthermore, it demands finance flows to be consistent with pathways towards low greenhouse gas...
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We examine climate transition risk in New Zealand (NZ) equities given that NZ's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are dominated by agricultural emissions and that carbon pricing has been in place since 2008. Only around half of NZX50 companies disclose emissions and that disclosure is driven by,...
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The New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) is the second oldest national ETS in the world and is unique in that it includes forestry as a carbon sink (a source of unit supply). Further, NZ ETS has been subject to many policy changes including a switch from allowing unlimited importation of...
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In response to the growing threat of climate change, the insurance industry has made significant investments in …, attorneys, insurance practitioners, and industry regulators model (re)insurer climate litigation risk. Section 2 of this report …
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