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Managing risk in reinsurance : from city fires to global warming / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reinsurance.
- Risk (Insurance).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- This publication traces the global development of reinsurance from the early 19th-century until today. It gives a detailed account of how the nature of risk itself changed over the last 200 years, and highlights all aspects relevant in shaping the industry including the development of risk, risk engineering and risk management, actuarial science, market conditions, impacts of politics, and the effects of regulatory changes.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 9, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181640-X
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