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Hurricane disturbance results in positive effects on tropical stream meiofauna abundance and richness. [PDF]

PLoS One
Santiago-Vera J, Ramírez A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Natural disaster risk salience and the strategic appointment of directors with sustainability expertise

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how salient sustainability risks from near‐miss natural disasters influence board composition. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, I find that firms located in counties neighboring disaster‐affected areas significantly increase the presence of directors with sustainability expertise following the disaster.
Bo Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Climate-Related Hazards and Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

Environ Health Insights
Husaini DC, Garbutt C, Marroquin D, Chiroma JH.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison, Jimmy Martí­nez‐Correa, Karlijn Morsink, Jia Min Ng, J. Todd Swarthout   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal dynamics of teen crisis help-seeking following hurricanes: A structural topic model analysis. [PDF]

PLOS Digit Health
Sugg MM, Ryan SC, Runkle JD, Reed CS, Dobbs L, Schwandt V.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contingent capital: A tale of two valuations

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the valuation gap between buyers and sellers of insurers' contingent capital, driven by asymmetric exposures to tax benefits, capital injections, and bankruptcy costs. We develop a novel Twin‐Tree Model with Jumps (TTMJ) that models the insurer's asset value dynamics by incorporating catastrophe risk, insolvency risk ...
Tian‐Shyr Dai, Chien‐Ling Lo, You‐Jia Sun, Hao‐Han Chang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mass incarceration as a climate justice issue. [PDF]

Environ Res Lett
LeMasters K, Brinkley-Rubinstein L, Ciplet D, Cloud D, Cowan K, Eisenman W, Haber L, Macht A, Reid CE.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Be ready! Hurricanes [English]

Be ready!

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When indemnity insurance fails: Parametric coverage under binding budget and risk constraints

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract In high‐risk environments, traditional indemnity insurance is often unaffordable or ineffective, despite its well‐known optimality under expected utility. We compare excess‐of‐loss indemnity insurance with parametric insurance within a common mean‐variance framework, allowing for fixed costs, heterogeneous premium loadings, and binding budget ...
Benjamin Avanzi, Debbie Kusch Falden, Mogens Steffensen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hurricane air-sea drag saturation and sea-state dependence revealed by surface drones. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Foltz GR, Zhang D, Looney LB, Chiodi AM, Zhang JA, Zhang C, Mazza E, Chi NH, Cokelet ED.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source