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8 March 2016
The role of commercial insurance in post-disaster recovery: quantitative evidence from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
This paper examines the role of business interruption insurance in business recovery following the Christchurch earthquake in 2011 in the short and medium term. In the short-term analysis, it asks whether insurance increases the likelihood of business survival in the aftermath of a disaster.
Publication
Published on
7 August 2015
Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two (surprisingly similar) cases: the Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood of 2011
The paper implements a novel way to aggregate the separate measures of disaster impact - the number of fatalities, of injuries, of people otherwise affected, and the financial damage that natural disasters cause.

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