Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of insurance / edited by Georges Dionne.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Dionne, Georges.

Description

xxxiii, 974 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Huebner international series on risk, insurance, and economic security

Uniform Title

Huebner international series on risk, insurance, and economic security.

Subject

• Insurance > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Denis Kessler -- Introduction / Georges Dionne -- Pt. I. History. 1. Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: The Past 25 Years / Henri Louberge -- Pt. II. Insurance Theory Without Information Problems. 2. Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm / Mark J. Machina. 3. Optimal Insurance Design: What Can We Do With and Without Expected Utility? / Christian Gollier. 4. The Effects of Changes in Risk on Risk Taking: A Survey / Christian Gollier and Louis Eeckhoudt. 5. The Theory of Insurance Demand / Harris Schlesinger -- Pt. III. Asymmetric Information: Theory. 6. Optimal Insurance Under Moral Hazard / Ralph Winter. 7. Adverse: Selection in Insurance Markets / Georges Dionne, Neil Doherty and Nathalie Fombaron. 8. The Theory of Risk Classification / Keith J. Crocker and Arthur Snow. 9. The Economics of Liability Insurance / Scott Harrington and Patricia Danzon. 10. Economic Analysis of Insurance Fraud / Pierre Picard --
• Pt. IV. Asymmetric Information: Empirical Analysis. 11. Econometric Models of Insurance Under Asymmetric Information / Pierre-Andre Chiappori. 12. The Empirical Measure of Information Problems with Emphasis on Insurance Fraud / Georges Dionne. 13. Incentive Effects of Workers' Compensation: A Survey / Bernard Fortin and Paul Lanoie. 14. Experience Rating Through Heterogeneous Models / Jean Pinquet -- Pt. V. Risk Management. 15. Innovation in Corporate Risk Management: The Case of Catastrophe Risk / Neil Doherty. 16. On Corporate Insurance / Richard MacMinn and James Garven. 17. Fincial Risk Management in the Insurance Industry / David Cummins, Richard D. Phillips and Stephen D. Smith. 18. Linking Insurance and Mitigation to Manage Natural Disaster Risk / H. Kunreuther -- Pt. VI. Insurance Pricing. 19. Applications of Financial Pricing Models in Property-Liability Insurance / David Cummins and Richard D. Phillips.
• 20. Volatility and Underwriting Cycles / Scott E. Harrington and Greg Niehaus -- Pt. VII. Industrial Organization of Insurance Markets. 21. Organizational Forms within the Insurance Industry: Theory and Evidence / David Mayers and Clifford W. Smith. 22. Insurance Distribution Systems / Laureen Regan and Sharon Tennyson. 23. The Retention Capacity of Insurance Markets in Developing Countries / Jean-Francois Outreville. 24. Analyzing Firm Performance in the Insurance Industry Using Frontier Efficiency and Productivity Methods / J. David Cummins and Mary A. Weiss. 25. Dealing with the Insurance Business in the Economic Accounts / Tarek M. Harchaoui -- Pt. VIII. Life Insurance, Pensions and Economic Security. 26. Developments in Pensions / Olivia S. Mitchell. 27. Life Insurance / Bertrand Villeneuve. 28. The Division of Labor Between Private and Social Insurance / Peter Zweifel.

ISBN

0792378709

LCCN

00031342

OCLC

• ocm43903606
• SCSB-8886427

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries