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Risk management and insurance : perspectives in a global economy
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Risk management and insurance : perspectives in a global economy

Author: Harold D Skipper; W Jean Kwon
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Skipper & Kwon's Risk Management & Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy provides an in-depth understanding of international risk management and insurance, their dynamics, and the economic,  Read more...

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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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