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Insuring against climate change : The global career of regional index insurance instruments

  • One of the most prominent policy instruments currently put forward in a variety of climate change-related initiatives are ‘regional index insurance instruments’. These instruments are generically designed to protect states from a region from the economic consequences of natural disasters and allow quick access to capital in the case of a major catastrophe. What unites these insurances is that it is not the actual financial loss which triggers a payment, as in more traditional forms of insurance, but the occurrence of a pre-defined weather event (e.g. hurricane, drought, tsunami). The performance of one a pool of variables is thereby used as a proxy for the actual loss. Another characteristic is that the provision of the insurance cover is often supported through financial market instruments such as weather derivatives, catastrophe bonds or catastrophe swaps. That means, financial market investors operate as ‘insurer of last resort’. (...)

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Metadaten
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Nikolas Scherer
Advisor:Helmut K. Anheier, Odd Arne Westad, Claus Offe
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (06/2017)
Publication year:2017
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2017/03/30
Number pages:358
Release Date:2017/08/04
Notes:
See also:
Scherer, Nikolas (2020): Insuring against climate change: The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools, Routledge, Abingdon/New York.

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Shelf mark: 2017D004 + 2017D004+1
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), Volltext (zugriffsbeschränkt)
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