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Carolyn Kousky

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Testimony of Carolyn Kousky on Reauthorization and Reform of the National Flood Insurance Program

This testimony from a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing the reauthorization and reform of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) highlights the ways in which the NFIP can improve community resilience to climate change and extreme weather events. Flood insurance has a critical role to play…
Carolyn Kousky
May 2, 2023
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Catastrophe Bonds

Catastrophe bonds are the most well-known type of ILS to transfer catastrophe risk to capital market investors and the second-largest according to volume. The first catastrophe bonds were issued in the mid-1990s and the market has been steadily growing since that time. This primer explains the general mechanics of catastrophe…
Carolyn Kousky
September 20, 2022
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Parametric Insurance for Disasters

The concept of parametric insurance, while not new, is getting increased attention as a way to provide faster and more flexible funds to victims of disasters and as a tool to provide post-disaster funds for emerging and otherwise difficult-to-insure risks. There is also hope that parametric policies can broaden disaster…
Carolyn Kousky
September 20, 2022