A re-examination of the U.S. insurance market’s capacity to pay catastrophe losses
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- Georges Dionne & Denise Desjardins, 2022. "A re‐examination of the US insurance market's capacity to pay catastrophe losses," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 25(4), pages 515-549, December.
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Keywords
Catastrophe loss; US insurance industry; industry capacity; reinsurance; climate finance; climate risk;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
- G52 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Insurance
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IAS-2022-06-20 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-RMG-2022-06-20 (Risk Management)
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