We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-
time light intensity, and focus on the role of insurance payments for damaged residential …

Recent major earthquake disasters have highlighted the effectiveness of financial soft
policies (eg, earthquake insurance) in transferring seismic risk away from those directly …

New Zealand introduced a seismic retrofitting policy in the wake of the catastrophic
Canterbury earthquakes of 2010–11. The aim was to enforce seismic strengthening of …

Natural hazard insurance is almost always provided by the public sector (directly, or
indirectly through public-private partnerships). Given this dominant role of the public sector …

The risk from extreme, rare events is hard to assess, possibly due to imperfect information.
This paper studies an extreme but often ignored risk, liquefaction. A precise, easily …

Market Incentives for Private Insurance Markets: Literature Review Page 1 The Center for Texas
Beaches and Shores, Texas A&M University at Galveston Texas Department of Insurance Contract …

Abstract" This dissertation consists of three chapters on the New Zealand housing market.
The first chapter, titled"" Salience of Hazard Disclosure and House Prices: Evidence from …

The Canterbury earthquake sequence (2010-2011) was the most devastating catastrophe in
New Zealand's modern history. Fortunately, in 2011 New Zealand had a high insurance …