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Business and Management
USA
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
92
Citations
30464
World Ranking
80
National Ranking
39

Economics and Finance

D-Index
80
Citations
24182
World Ranking
278
National Ranking
204

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Overview

Howard Kunreuther was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research contributions spanned several disciplines including Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a particular focus on areas such as Insurance and Financial Risk Management, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Agricultural Risk and Resilience.

Their work included investigations into Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Disaster Management and Resilience, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Kunreuther coauthored frequently with several researchers, including Michael Useem, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Carolyn Kousky, Noelwah R. Netusil, and Shulav Neupane.

Their research was published in a variety of journals and venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Land Economics
  • Transport Policy
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Behavioural Public Policy

Significant papers by Kunreuther include:

  • U.S. transportation infrastructure resilience: Influences of insurance, incentives, and public assistance (2020), Transport Policy
  • The Willingness to Pay for Flood Insurance (2021), Land Economics
  • Default options and insurance demand (2021), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • All by myself? Testing descriptive social norm-nudges to increase flood preparedness among homeowners (2021), Behavioural Public Policy

They also contributed to book publications, including a title with Stanford University Press eBooks:

  • Leadership Dispatches (2020)

Awards received by Kunreuther included being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005 and a Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC).

Best Publications

  • Framing, Probability Distortions, and Insurance Decisions

    Eric J. Johnson;John Hershey;Jacqueline Meszaros;Howard Kunreuther

  • Disaster insurance protection: Public policy lessons

    Howard Kunreuther

  • Disaster resilience: A national imperative

    Susan L. Cutter;Joseph A. Ahearn;Bernard Amadei;Patrick Crawford

  • Mitigating Disaster Losses through Insurance

    Howard Kunreuther

  • Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk

    Partricia Grossi;Howard Kunreuther

  • Decision processes for low probability events: Policy implications

    Colin F. Camerer;Howard Kunreuther

  • Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment

    J. C J H Aerts;W. J. Botzen;W. J. Botzen;W. J. Botzen;K. C. Clarke;S. L. Cutter

  • Interdependent Security

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  • SOURCES OF BIAS IN ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES FOR UTILITY FUNCTIONS

    John C. Hershey;Howard C. Kunreuther;Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  • Decision processes, rationality and adjustment to natural hazards

    Paul Slovic;Howard Kunreuther;Gilbert F. White

  • Political ideology affects energy-efficiency attitudes and choices

    Dena M. Gromet;Howard Kunreuther;Richard P. Larrick

  • At War with the Weather: Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes

    Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan;Howard C. Kunreuther

  • Risk, ambiguity, and insurance

    Robin M. Hogarth;Howard Kunreuther

  • Neglecting Disaster: Why Don't People Insure Against Large Losses?

    Howard Kunreuther;Mark Pauly

  • Making Low Probabilities Useful

    Howard Kunreuther;Nathan Novemsky;Daniel Kahneman

  • Decision Sciences: Frontmatter

    Paul R. Kleindorfer;Howard G. Kunreuther;Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  • Cognitive Processes and the Decisions of Some Parents to Forego Pertussis Vaccination for Their Children

    Jacqueline R. Meszaros;Jacqueline R. Meszaros;David A. Asch;Jonathan Baron;John C. Hershey

  • Ambiguity and underwriter decision processes

    Howard Kunreuther;Jacqueline Meszaros;Robin M. Hogarth;Mark Spranca

  • Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies

    Howard Kunreuther;Shreekant Gupta;Valentina Bosetti;Roger Cooke

  • Disaster Mitigation and Insurance: Learning from Katrina

    Howard Kunreuther

  • Risk, Media and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology

    James Flynn;Paul Slovic;Howard Kunreuther

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark V. Pauly
Mark V. Pauly University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Heal
Geoffrey Heal Columbia University
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
W. J. Wouter Botzen
W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Paul J. H. Schoemaker University of Pennsylvania
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Robin M. Hogarth
Robin M. Hogarth Pompeu Fabra University
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Jonathan Baron
Jonathan Baron University of Pennsylvania

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