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Sebastain Awondo

Tuscaloosa , AL 35487

United States

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0223

United States

  • University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

6

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4

Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

Estimating Effects of Wind Loss Mitigation on Home Value

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Feb 2019
Sebastain Awondo, Harris Hollans, Lars Powell and Chip Wade
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, Auburn University - College of Business, University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Mississippi
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Windstorm Risk, Self-Insurance, Hedonic Prices, Spatial Regression

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Do Housing Prices Change with Building Codes? *

Number of pages: 27
Lars Powell, Sebastain Awondo and Shane Crawford
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and The University of Alabama
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R31, R32, R38 Building Codes, House Prices, Real Estate

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Shame or No Shame: Mandatory Disclosure and Fossil Fuel Divestment by Insurance Companies

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Oct 2025
Boheng Su, Anqi Jiao, Lars Powell and Sebastain Awondo
University of South Florida - Muma College of Business, Capital University of Economics and Business, University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration
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Insurance, Regulation

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Effects of Risk Attitudes and Information Friction on Willingness to Pay for Precautionary Building Standards

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 05 Nov 2022
Sebastain Awondo, Lars Powell and Kevin Joseph Egan
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and University of Toledo
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Keywords: Risk attitudes, Information friction, Homeowners insurance, Willingness to pay, Field experiment, Natural disasters

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The Value of Risk Reduction for Mixed Risk Seekers/Averters Under Increasing Severity of Loss

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Oct 2022
Sebastain Awondo
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration
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Willingness to pay, Risk attitudes, Risk seekers, Skewness, Probability of loss, Severity of loss

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Does Loss Mitigation Narrow the Protection Gap? Evidence from Fortified Home Retrofits and the Insurance Contract *

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 15 May 2026
Sebastain Awondo
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration
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, Homeowners Insurance, Loss Mitigation, Insurance Optimization, Protection Gap, Household Finance