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Spatial financeWhere capital meets hazard, exposure and transition

Professional research

Disaster Risk Finance research asks how much disasters cost public budgets and households, how to layer instruments by frequency and severity, whether pre-arranged money arrives faster and helps more, and how basis risk and debt clauses perform when tested by real events.

01Register

Professional research on the record.

Disaster Risk Finance
  1. 01FieldsDisaster and crisis, Sovereign and public finance, Development finance, Insurance and catastrophe
  2. 02STEM methods4 canonical methods applied
  3. 03Topics8 subject pages
  4. 04Counterparts6 platforms in shared fields
  5. 05PublisherThe Global Risks Alliance
  6. 06Analysis uncertaintyAnalysis and uncertainty
  7. 07Financial sourceFinancial source and licence register
02Questions

What the research asks.

  1. 01

    Risk financing layers

    Retention, contingency and external risk transfer.

  2. 02

    Sovereign contingent liabilities

    Disaster costs and budget exposures.

  3. 03

    Insurance and public pools

    Pools and insurance readiness.

  4. 04

    Anticipatory finance

    Triggers and preparedness evidence.

  5. 05

    Post disaster financing

    Liquidity timing and recovery resources.

  6. 06

    Public investment and resilience

    Risk-sensitive budget and capital projects.

03Agenda

Questions, methods and limits.

QuestionMethodLimit
What do disasters cost the budget?Tagging of post-event spending and PDNA resultsUntagged budget data
Which layer suits which instrument?Loss distributions and cost-of-funds comparisonShort loss histories
Does early money reduce losses?Evaluation of anticipatory programmesFew rigorous studies
How did parametric covers perform?Comparison of payments with reported lossesReported losses are incomplete
04Evidence

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Results are labelled as observed, published statistics, estimated, modelled, forecast, scenario or expert judgement. Missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.

Methods

Methods and uncertainty

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Sources

Source and data register

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05Sources

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07Questions and answers

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