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
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Financing of Catastrophe Risk; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Insurer Demand for Catastrophe Reinsurance; 2. Alternative Means of Redistributing Catastrophic Risk in a National Risk-Management System; 3. Pricing Excess-of-Loss Reinsurance Contracts against Catastrophic Loss; 4. Challenges Facing the Insurance Industry in Managing Catastrophic Risks; 5. The Pricing of U.S. Catastrophe Reinsurance; 6. Reinsurance for Catastrophes and Cataclysms; 7. The Influence of Income Tax Rules on Insurance Reserves.
  • 8. Courting Disaster? The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy since 18039. The Moral Hazard of Insuring the Insurers; 10. Index Hedge Performance: Insurer Market Penetration and Basis Risk; 11. Panel Discussions; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index.

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