Table of Contents:
  • Disasters by design / Dennis S. Mileti
  • Fujita scale and dollar losses : evidence from the May 1999 Oklahoma City tornado / Dakshina G. De Silva, Jamie Brown Kruse and Yongsheng Wang
  • Analysis of local labor market responses to tornadoes / Bradley T. Ewing, Jamie B. Kruse, Mark A. Thompson
  • Wind disasters and the insurance industry / George R. Walker
  • Effect of uncertainties in modeling tropical cyclones on pricing excess of loss reinsurance / Siamak Daneshvaran and Robert E. Morden
  • Weather and shocks to insurance stock prices : volatility and persistence / Bradley T. Ewing and Guillermo Covarrubias
  • Risk mitigation : individual and market behavior / Jamie Brown Kruse and Kevin M. Simmons
  • Risk perception and the value of safe rooms as a protective measure from tornadoes : a survey method / Ozlem Ozdemir
  • The market for tornado protection : market and policy responses following the May 1999 Oklahoma tornadoes / William L. Ridley, Daniel Sutter and Kevin M. Simmons
  • Impacts of insurance deductibles and hurricane damage perceptions on mitigation choices / Robert T. Burrus, Jr., Christopher F. Dumas and J. Edward Graham, Jr.
  • Hurricane risk perceptions and preparedness / John C. Whitehead
  • Valuing safe rooms in hurricane prone regions / John R. Crooker and Jamie Brown Kruse
  • Natural hazards, fatality rates and societal vulnerability / Nicole Cornell Sadowski and Daniel Sutter
  • Guidelines for the uniform definition, identification and measurement of economic damages from natural hazard events / Charles W. Howe and Harold C. Cochrane
  • Economics as a component of a multidisciplinary wind research program / Kishor Mehta.