MAP20070033090The Financing of catastrophe risk / edited by Kenneth A. Froot. — Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, cop. 1999476 p. ; 23 cm
. — (National Bureau of Economic Research Project report)Insurer demand for catastrophe reinsurance -- Alternative means of redistributing catastrophic risk in a National Risk Management System -- Pricing excess-of-loss reinsurance contracts against catastrophic loss -- Challenges facing the insurance industry in managing catastrophic risk -- The pricing of U.S. catastrophe insurance -- Reinsurance for catastrophes and cataclysm -- The influence of income tax rules on insurance reserves -- Courting disaster? the transformation of Federal disaster policy since 1803 -- The moral hazard of insuring the insurers