The financial risks and potential systemic impacts induced by climate change and the
transition to a low‐carbon economy have become a central issue for both financial investors …

In the last decade or so, inequality studies have assumed renewed prominence across the
social sciences. In this introduction to a special issue of Applied Geography, we set out to …

How do climate risk beliefs affect coastal housing markets? This paper provides theoretical
and empirical evidence. First, we build a dynamic housing market model and show that …

Using a comprehensive database of coastal home sales merged with data on elevation
relative to local tides, we compare prices for houses based on their inundation threshold …

Homes exposed to sea level rise (SLR) sell for approximately 7% less than observably
equivalent unexposed properties equidistant from the beach. This discount has grown over …

Flood risk assessments provide inputs for the evaluation of flood risk management (FRM)
strategies. Traditionally, such risk assessments provide estimates of loss of life and …

People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by
natural disasters such as floods and droughts. This paper analyses household survey data …

This paper analyzes the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market
using a large parcel-level dataset that contains all housing sales for 2003–2017. The …

Economic theory suggests that, other things being equal, properties located within a
floodplain should suffer a price discount. A survey of the existing evidence nonetheless …

I examine the learning process that economic agents use to update their expectation of an
uncertain and infrequently observed event. I use a new nation-wide panel dataset of large …