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Managing Economic Exposures of Natural Disasters: Exploring Alternative Financial Risk Management Opportunities and Instruments

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  • Andersen, Torben

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The report makes a general assessment of the need for catastrophe risk transfer in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyzes different ways in which risk transfer can take place in the form of conventional reinsurance contracts as well as newer derivative instruments and risk-linked securities.

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  • Andersen, Torben, 2001. "Managing Economic Exposures of Natural Disasters: Exploring Alternative Financial Risk Management Opportunities and Instruments," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 2230, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:2230
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    1. Henry He Huang & Joseph Kerstein & Chong Wang, 2018. "The impact of climate risk on firm performance and financing choices: An international comparison," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 49(5), pages 633-656, July.
    2. Christoph Bals & Koko Warner & Sonja Butzengeiger, 2006. "Insuring the uninsurable: design options for a climate change funding mechanism," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(6), pages 637-647, November.
    3. Wenner, Mark D., 2005. "Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3164, Inter-American Development Bank.
    4. Freeman, Paul & Martin, Leslie A. & Linnerooth-Bayer, Joanne & Warner, Koko & Lavell, Allan M. & Cardona, Omar D. & Kunreuther, Howard, 2001. "National Systems and Institutional Mechanisms for the Comprehensive Management of Disaster Risk: Phase 1," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 2813, Inter-American Development Bank.

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