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Should Governments Provide Catastrophe Insurance?

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  • Jaffee Dwight M
  • Russell Thomas

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Thomas Russell and Dwight Jaffee argue that private markets should be able to insure against catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina or 9/11, but if government must, then it should follow the same actuarially based pricing and reserving rules that would be followed by a competitive private market.

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  • Jaffee Dwight M & Russell Thomas, 2006. "Should Governments Provide Catastrophe Insurance?," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 3(5), pages 1-8, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:3:y:2006:i:5:n:6
    DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1122
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    1. Menna Hassan & Nourhan Sakr & Arthur Charpentier, 2022. "Government Intervention in Catastrophe Insurance Markets: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," Papers 2207.01010, arXiv.org.
    2. Aglaia Petseti & Milton Nektarios, 2012. "Proposal for a National Earthquake Insurance Programme for Greece," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 37(2), pages 377-400, April.
    3. Joshua D. Woodard & Leslie J. Verteramo‐Chiu, 2017. "Efficiency Impacts of Utilizing Soil Data in the Pricing of the Federal Crop Insurance Program," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 99(3), pages 757-772, April.
    4. Franz Sinabell & Thomas Url, 2006. "Versicherungen als effizientes Mittel zur Risikotragung von Naturgefahren," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 28181.
    5. Thomas Url, 2008. "Wahrscheinlichkeits-Überschreitungskurven für Hochwasserkatastrophen in Österreich," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 34140.
    6. Joshua D. Woodard & Jing Yi, 2020. "Estimation of Insurance Deductible Demand Under Endogenous Premium Rates," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 87(2), pages 477-500, June.

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