The financing of catastrophe risk / / edited by Kenneth A. Froot

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Disciplina: 368.12/201/0973
• Soggetto topico: Casualty insurance - United States; Disaster insurance - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Altri autori: FrootKenneth
• Note generali: A collection of papers written for this volume and for the conference, "The Financing of Property Casualty Risks," organized by the editor under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research and its Insurance Program.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research -- 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 1803 -- 9. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The financing of catastrophe risk
• ISBN: 1-281-22348-4; 9786611223489; 0-226-26625-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784520703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Bureau of Economic Research project report.