The Financing of Catastrophe Risk.

Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a single catastrophic event might exceed 1 0 billion was unthinkable. With ever increasing property-casualty risks and unabated growth in hazard-prone ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Froot, Kenneth A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
Temas:
Casualty insurance > United States.
Disaster insurance > United States.
Assurance-dommages > États-Unis.
Assurance contre les catastrophes > États-Unis.
Casualty insurance
Disaster insurance
United States
finance, finances, financial, money, income, wealth, insurance, reinsurance, industry, industrial, economy, economics, history, historical, billion, property, risk, hazard, area, regional, united states, usa, america, american, disaster, loss, capital, capitalization, bankrupt, bankruptcy, policy, academia, college, university, higher education.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a single catastrophic event might exceed 1 0 billion was unthinkable. With ever increasing property-casualty risks and unabated growth in hazard-prone areas, insurers and reinsurers now envision the possibility of disaster losses of. 1 00 billion in the United States. Against this backdrop, the capitalization of the insurance and reinsurance industries has become a crucial concern. While it remains unlikely that a single event might entirely b.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (490 pages)
ISBN:9780226266251
0226266257
1281223484
9781281223487

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