Details

Subject(s)

• Casualty insurance—United States [Browse]
• Disaster insurance—United States [Browse]

Related name

• Froot, Kenneth [Browse]

Series

• National Bureau of Economic Research project report. [More in this series]
• A National Bureau of Economic Research project report

Summary note

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

Notes

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

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ISBN

• 1-281-22348-4
• 9786611223489
• 0-226-26625-7

OCLC

• 437248237
• 781254962

Doi

• 10.7208/9780226266251

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