Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Selected papers from the 25th Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists : held in Vienna, September 21-23, 1998

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Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (25th: 1998: Vienna)

Selected papers from the 25th Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists : held in Vienna, September 21-23, 1998 / organised by the Institüt für Versicherungswissenschaften and der Universität zu Wien. — Genève : Association de Genève, 1998-1999

2 v. ; 30 cm . — (Études et dossiers ; 220, 221)

Sumario: Retirement provision by the private sector -- Using catastrophe-linked securities to diversify insurance risk -- Prospect theory's approach to insurance decisions -- The demand for flood insurance -- Effectsf the single market on the Austrian insurance industry -- Global change, insurance, and catastrophic risk management -- The coming of private insurance to a former planned economy -- Can insurers pay for the "big one"? -- A bill for the reform of the German Insurance Contracts Act -- Decomposing catastrophic risk -- Diversification in the financial services industry -- Adverse selection and categorical discrimination in health insurance markets

1. Economía del seguro . 2. Seguros . 3. Teoría económica . 4. Congresos . I. Association Internationale pour l'Etude de l'Economie de l'Assurance . II. Études et dossiers ; 220, 221 . III. Title.