Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Short Selling Insurance Stocks Around Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
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Wetland sedimentation from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
More than 131 x 10(6) metric tons (MT) of inorganic sediments accumulated in coastal wetlands when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita crossed the Louisiana coast in 2005, plus another 281 x 10(6) MT when accumulation was prorated for open water area. The annualized combined amount of inorganic sediments per hurricane equals (i) 12% of the Mississippi River's suspended load, (ii) 5.5 times the inorgani...
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Turner et al. (Reports, 20 October 2006, p. 449) measured sedimentation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in coastal Louisiana and inferred that storm deposition overwhelms direct Mississippi River sediment input. However, their annualized hurricane deposition rate is overestimated, whereas riverine deposition is underestimated by at least an order of magnitude. Their numbers do not provide a cr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Risk & Insurance
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-4367,1539-6975
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2008.00293.x