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This paper studies the politico-economic reasons for the refusal of a proposed compulsory flood insurance scheme in Germany. It provides the rationale for such scheme and outlines the basic features of a market-orientated design. The main reasons for the political down-turn of this proposal were...
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This papers studies the effects on service quality and consumer surplus of a minimum price which is fixed by a bureaucratic non-monopolistic professional association. It shows that the price floor set by a Niskanen-type professional assocation will maximize consumer surplus only if consumers...
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The differing paradigms of ecological and neoclassical environmental economics have been described in various articles and books and are also embedded in different institutional settings. However, we cannot take for granted that the paradigm debates described in the literature are actually...
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Die jüngste Hochwasserkatastrophe wirft jenseits der staatlichen und privaten Soforthilfe die Frage nach einer Strategie auf, mit der den Hochwasserrisiken vorausschauend begegnet werden könnte. Dabei steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, wie in modernen Volkswirtschaften eine planvolle...
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Die Flutkatastrophe vom Sommer 2002 offenbart ein Dilemma bei der Absicherung gegen Elementarschäden. Während sich die ,,kühl kalkulierenden" Privatversicherer angesichts einer wachsenden Zahl von Naturkatastrophen gezielt aus der Deckung von Elementarschäden wie Sturm und Überschwemmung...
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This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of an adaptation of these systems to climate change and a growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of...
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Dieses Papier untersucht die politisch-ökonomischen Gründe für die Ablehnung eines Versicherungspflicht für Elementarschäden in Deutschland. Nach einer Darlegung der ökonomischen Vorteilhaftigkeit und der Grundzüge eines praktikablen Modells einer Elementarschadenversicherungspflicht...
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This paper studies the politico-economic reasons for the refusal of a proposed compulsory flood insurance scheme in Germany. It provides the rationale for such scheme and outlines the basic features of a market-orientated design. The main reasons for the political down-turn of this proposal were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300569