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Open AccessData-driven modeling reveals the Western dominance of global public interest in earthquakes
Catastrophic earthquakes stimulate information-seeking behaviors beyond the affected geographical boundaries; however, our understanding of the dynamics of global public interest in earthquakes remains limited...
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Open AccessCultural Heritage and natural disasters: the insurance choice of the Italian Cathedrals
Given the threat of natural disasters to Cultural Heritage, this paper aims to investigate how the use of the insurance instrument contributes to the definition of an adequate risk management strategy. The ana...
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Open AccessManaging climate change risk: the case of the Italian Churches
In a world of increasing and worse and worse climate events, there is an urgent need to find how to manage the climate change risk and make cultural heritage more resilient. Given the relevant threat represent...
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Climate Change Remedies
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Insurance Market Failures
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Open AccessTime windows of opportunities to fight earthquake under-insurance: evidence from Google Trends
Earthquake insurance can be a useful tool to build more sustainable societies and disaster-resilient communities. However, the coverage is not common in many countries. This article aims to contribute to the l...
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Black boxes and market efficiency: the effect on premiums in the Italian motor-vehicle insurance market
The paper addresses the research question of whether black boxes affect the market efficiency, particularly by reducing the level of premiums. The case analyzed is the Italian motor-vehicle insurance market, c...
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Insurance Market Failures
Insurance market is characterized by failures that impose particular negative consequences; given the failures, different remedies may improve the market outcome. On one hand, the insurance market is character...
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Environmental Policy: Choice
The choice between environmental policies is traditionally considered in terms of ex ante versus ex post interventions on the behavior of (potential) injurers that (can) cause an environmental accident with a ...
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Climate Change Remedies
The law and economics analysis of the climate change remedies has been focused on the question of which would be the policy instrument most suited to provide incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The ...
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Göran Skogh on Risk Sharing and Environmental Policy
This article pays hommage to the important work of Göran Skogh, the founding father of the European Association of Law and Economics. It recalls Skogh’s work on instrument choice, the transaction cost of insur...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Environmental Policy (Choice)
The choice between environmental policies is traditionally considered in terms of ex ante versus ex post interventions on the behavior of (potential) injurers that (can) cause an environmental accident with a ...
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Insurance models and European climate change policies: an assessment
The paper outlines the role of insurance as an economic policy tool that can be used to address the issue of climate change. The magnitude of potential loss, the adverse social and economic consequences for mi...
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The Italian Motor Insurance Market: Will the Recent Interventions Solve the Old Efficiency Problems?
Among the main European countries, Italy continues to be the one with the highest frequency of accidents and the highest average cost of damages. Moreover, there is a relationship between premiums and compensa...
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Law and Economics of Environmental Insurance (Editorial)
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The Efficient Liability Sharing Factor for Environmental Disasters: Lessons for Optimal Insurance Regulation
Using a structural model of the interactions between governments, firms and insurance companies, we characterize the distortions in environmental liability sharing between firms and insurance companies that th...
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Information Exchange as Collusive Behaviour: Evidence from an Antitrust Intervention in the Italian Insurance Market
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Economics of the 96/92 Directive with Reference to Italian Electricity Market Liberalisation Process
This paper contains an economic review of the law regulating the liberalisation process now under way in the Italian electricity sector. The legal framework is presented focusing first on Community rules, in p...
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Labour Market Regulation in Italy, Employment and Welfare
Primary scope of research about the Italian labour market is to analyse whether it works as a traditional inputs market. First of all it is difficult to define the Italian labour market as a perfect competitio...