Managing risk in reinsurance: from city fires to global warming

Risk and reinsurance / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones -- The cultural context of insurance in the West / Geoffrey Clark -- The evolution of the industry structure / Robin Pearson -- The monetary and financial environment, 1860-2013 / Forrest Capie -- Calculating the unpredictable : history o...

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Other Authors: Haueter, Niels Viggo (Editor), Jones, Geoffrey (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
Edition:first edition
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Online Access:FWS01
FWS02
Summary:Risk and reinsurance / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones -- The cultural context of insurance in the West / Geoffrey Clark -- The evolution of the industry structure / Robin Pearson -- The monetary and financial environment, 1860-2013 / Forrest Capie -- Calculating the unpredictable : history of actuarial theories and practices in reinsurance / Hans Bühlmann and Martin Lengwiler -- The rise and decline of treaty reinsurance : changing roles or reinsurers as financial service providers / Alexandros-Andrea Kyrtsis -- From gentlemen's agreement to judicial instrument : the history of contract practice and conflict resolution in reinsurance / Tilmann J. Röder -- Reinsurance law as an autonomous regulatory regime? Resistance to codification and avoidance of state jurisdiction in the twentieth century / Miloš Vec -- What is an insurable risk? Swiss re and atomic reactor insurance / Lorraine Daston -- Natural catastrophes and their effects on reinsurance / Welf Werner -- Continuity and change in reinsurance 1990-2016 / Roman Lechner, Niels Viggo Haueter, and Lawrence Kenny
Item Description:Enthält 11 Beiträge
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource Diagramme
ISBN:9780191816406