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Earthquake Risk In Indonesia: Parametric Contingent Claims For Humanitarian Response And Financial Institution Resiliency, Jason Hartell
Earthquake Risk In Indonesia: Parametric Contingent Claims For Humanitarian Response And Financial Institution Resiliency, Jason Hartell
Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics
This dissertation explores the use of an index based contingent claims mechanism against earthquake risk in Indonesia. It focuses on time critical financing needs of international humanitarian relief organizations, and on efforts to improve the resiliency of geographically constrained financial institutions whose clientele are exposed to disaster risk. The approach uses measures of ground motion intensity as the basis for the index. The humanitarian response mechanism provides a new way for private sector partners to participate and gain visibility in their support of principled humanitarian funding. Index based contingent claims for local banks are shown to enhance their ability to …