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Living with the Merapi Volcano: Risks and Disaster Microinsurance

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  • Aloysius G. Brata
  • Piet Rietveld
  • Henri L.F. de Groot
  • Budy P. Resosudarmo
  • Wouter Zant

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This paper investigates the influence of perception of natural disaster risks on the probability of local people to participate in a hypothetical disaster microinsurance. We use household data for a specific disaster risk of the Mount Merapi in Java. We find that respondent's perception of natural disaster risk is in line with experts' risk assessment. Estimation results show that this perception positively influences the interest to participate in disaster microinsurance. We also find that insurance literacy has a strong positive relationship with the respondent's interest to participate in disaster microinsurance.

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  • Aloysius G. Brata & Piet Rietveld & Henri L.F. de Groot & Budy P. Resosudarmo & Wouter Zant, 2014. "Living with the Merapi Volcano: Risks and Disaster Microinsurance," Departmental Working Papers 2014-13, The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:pas:papers:2014-13
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    Keywords

    perception of risks; eruptions; microinsurance; Merapi;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis

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