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Cultural Heritage and natural disasters: the insurance choice of the Italian Cathedrals

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  • Francesco Masi

    (Università del Salento - Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Economia)

  • Donatella Porrini

    (Università del Salento - Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Economia)

Abstract

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 analysis focuses on the role that insurance can play both by supplying policies covering damage and proactively stimulating prevention behaviors, taking into consideration information imperfections (i.e., adverse selection, moral hazard and charity hazard). Through a survey among Italian Dioceses, data about the diffusion of insurance contracts were collected together with other qualitative and quantitative elements linked to the decisional process of insuring Italian Cathedrals. The empirical analysis shows that the administrators of the Dioceses are aware of the economic value of the cultural assets and in safeguarding the Cathedrals they identify in the insurance system a useful and efficient risk management instrument.

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  • Francesco Masi & Donatella Porrini, 2021. "Cultural Heritage and natural disasters: the insurance choice of the Italian Cathedrals," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 45(3), pages 409-433, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jculte:v:45:y:2021:i:3:d:10.1007_s10824-020-09397-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s10824-020-09397-x
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    Keywords

    Cultural Heritage; Natural disasters; Insurance; Cathedrals;
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    JEL classification:

    • C83 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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