Back to members

Jan Starmans

Jan Starmans

Institution

Stockholm School of Economics

PhD Year

2018

FTG Membership

Member

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/janstarmans11/

Featured Work

Insurance, Migration and Disclosure of Climate Risk

Sep 13, 2026

Deeksha Gupta, Alexandr Kopytov, Jan Starmans

We study government disclosure of the spatial distribution of climate risk. A regulator decides whether to reveal which region is exposed to disaster risk. Households can insure against the disaster or relocate at a cost. Disclosure induces migration out of the risky region, which reduces aggregate risk but impairs risk sharing by revealing who is exposed. Migration also lowers insurance prices by increasing the supply...