Behaviouristic approaches to insurance decisions in the context of natural hazards

Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications - Proceedings of the Joint ESREL and SRA-Europe Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 2675-2683

  Bank, M ^a,b   Gruber, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b alpS Zentrum fur Naturgefahren Management   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS; NATURAL HAZARD; PROSPECT THEORY; RISK EXPOSURE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; INSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79952339345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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