Bounded rationality, climate risks, and insurance: Is there a market for natural disasters?

Land Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-278

  Botzen, W J Wouter ^a   van den Bergh, Jeroen C J M ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Faculty of Business Administration and Economics   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER RELIEF; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; INSURANCE SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65649097097     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.85.2.265     Document Type: Article

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