MAP20070035012Handbook of insurance / edited by Georges Dionne. — Boston ; Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, cop. 2000974 p. ; 23 cm
. — (Huebner international series on risk, insurance and economic security ; 22)HISTORY: developments in risk and insurance economics: the past 25 tears -- INSURANCE THEORY WITHOUT INFORMATION PROBLEMS: Non-expected utility and the robustness of the classical insurance paradigm; Optimal insurance desing: What can we do with and without expected utility?; The effects of changes in risk on risk taking: a survey;The theory of insurance demand -- ASIMMETRIC INFORMATION: THEORY: Optimal insurance under moral hazard; Adverse selection in insurance markets; The theory of risk classification; The economics of liability insurance; Economic analysis of insurance fraud -- ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS: Econometrics models of insurance under asymmetric information; The empirical measure of information problems with emphasis on insurance fraud; Incentive effects of workers' compensation: a survey; Experience rating through heterogeneous models -- RISK MANAGEMENT: Innovation in corporate risk management: the case of catastrophe risk; On corporate insurance; Financial risk management in the insurance industry; Linking insurance and mitigation to manage natural desaster risk -- INSURANCE PRICING: Applications of financial pricing models in property-liability insurance; Volatility and underwriting cycles -- INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF INSURANCE MARKETS: Organizational forms within the insurance industry: theory and evidence; Insurance distribution systems; The retention capacity of insurance markets in developings countries; Analyzing firm performance in the insurance industry using efficiency and productivity methods; Dealing with the insurance business in the economics accounts -- LIFE INSURANCE, PENSIONS AND ECONOMIC SECURITY: Developments in pensions; Life insurance; The division of labor betwen private and social insurance