Handbook of Insurance: v. 22 (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security) - Hardcover

Dionne, Georges

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792378709 ISBN 13: 9780792378709

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

In the 1970's, the research agenda in insurance was dominated by optimal insurance coverage, security design, and equilibrium under conditions of imperfect information. The 1980's saw a growth of theoretical developments including non-expected utility, price volatility, retention capacity, the pricing and design of insurance contracts in the presence of multiple risks, and the liability insurance crisis. The empirical study of information problems, financial derivatives, and large losses due to catastrophic events dominated the research agenda in the 1990's. This handbook provides a single reference source on insurance for professors, researchers, graduate students, regulators, consultants, and practitioners, that reviews the research developments in insurance and its related fields that have occurred since the 1970s. The book starts with the history and foundations of insurance theory and moves on to review asymmetric information, risk management and insurance pricing, and the industrial organization of insurance markets. The book ends with life insurance, pensions, and economic security.

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Review

What a pleasure it is to discover the second edition of the Handbook of Insurance, twelve years after the first! Many key concepts at the core of risk, uncertainty and insurance economics have been further refined, reassessed, and reanalyzed. New issues have emerged, including systemic risk, longevity risk, long-term care, the corporate governance of insurance companies, capital allocation within insurance companies and alternative risk transfer devices. I have a simple wish: that this handbook be diffused to as wide an audience as possible, both in academic and professional spheres.

Denis Kessler
Chairman and CEO of SCOR

About the Author

Georges Dionne, Professor, Department of Finance HEC Montreal Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3T 2A7

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792378709
• ISBN 13: 9780792378709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1008