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Peter Robinson is a PhD student in the department of Environmental Economics of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has a background in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, with a particular focus on Development Economics. His MSc thesis addressed the effect of transport infrastructure on differences in growth rates between coastal and inland regions in China.
Currently, Peter Robinson is working on a PhD project concerning the Behavioural Economics of flood insurance demand. This project aims to contribute to the development of stable flood insurance arrangements, improve the understanding of low-probability/high-impact (LPHI) risk, economic evaluations of insurance arrangements, and the influence of LPHI risk on individual behaviour.
Education
2014: MSc Economics, with a specialization in Development Economics, University of Amsterdam.
2013: BA Economics, University of Aberdeen.
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Research Output 2018 2019
The impact of regret and worry on the threshold level of concern for flood insurance demand: Evidence from dutch homeowners
Robinson, P. J. & Wouter Botzen, W. J., May 2018, In : Judgment and Decision Making. 13, 3, p. 237-245 9 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Insurance
Emotions
Decision Making
Insurance demand
Flood insurance demand and probability weighting: The influences of regret, worry, locus of control and the threshold of concern heuristic
Robinson, P. J. & Botzen, W. J. W., 1 Jan 2019, In : Water Resources and Economics. 100144.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
locus of control
weighting
heuristics
insurance
natural disaster
Determinants of probability neglect and risk attitudes for disaster risk: An online experimental study of flood insurance demand among homeowners
Robinson, P. J. & Botzen, W., 2019, In : Risk Analysis.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Economic experiments, hypothetical surveys and market data studies of insurance demand against low‐probability/high‐impact risks: A systematic review of designs, theoretical insights and determinants of demand
Robinson, P. J. & Botzen, W., 2019, In : Journal of Economic Surveys.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review