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Breckner M, Englmaier F, Stowasser T & Sunde U (2016) Resilience to natural disasters — Insurance penetration, institutions, and disaster types. Economics Letters, 148, pp. 106-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.09.023
Abstract
Using newly available data, this note provides new evidence suggesting that private insurance penetration mitigates the negative economic effects of natural disasters. The results document heterogeneous effects across differentially institutionalized countries and across different disaster types
Keywords
Natural disasters; Economic development; Insurance penetration; Institutions; Complementarities
Journal
Economics Letters: Volume 148
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 30/11/2016 |
Publication date online | 30/09/2016 |
Date accepted by journal | 19/09/2016 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28478 |
ISSN | 0165-1765 |
eISSN | 1873-7374 |
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