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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harold D Skipper; W Jean Kwon |
| ISBN: | 9781405125413 1405125411 |
| OCLC Number: | 80917129 |
| Description: | xv, 751 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction to risk management and insurance -- Risk perceptions and reactions -- Economics of international trade -- Societal risk assessment and control -- Catastrophe risk assessment -- Catastrophe risk assessment -- Societal risk management and changing demographics -- Regulation of private-sector financial services -- Public-sector economic security -- Legal environment -- Sociocultural effects on risk management -- Enterprise risk management -- Internal loss financing arrangements -- External loss financing arrangements --- Risk management for catastrophes -- Personnel risk management -- Political risk management -- Intellectural property and technology risk management -- Economic foundations of insurance -- Nature and importance of insurance -- Life insurance -- Nonlife insurance -- Reinsurance -- Regulation and taxation in insurance markets -- Financial services integration -- Risk management and insurance in a global economy. |
| Responsibility: | Harold D. Skipper and W. Jean Kwon. |
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"'Balanced' is a good word for describing this text. In addition to striking a nice balance between accessibility and thoroughness, it also maintains good balances between breadth and depth, and between the areas of risk management and insurance. I found the writing clear and the within-chapter organization of topics very logical. The text would be useful to both MBA students and insurance industry professionals." Professor Michael R. Powers, Temple University Read more...
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- Risk management.
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- Risikomanagement.
- Versicherung.
