Risk management and insurance : perspectives in a global economy /
By: Skipper, Harold D.
Contributor(s): Kwon, W. Jean.
Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2007Description: xv, 751 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405125413 (hardcover ; alk. paper); 9781405125413:; 1405125411 (hardcover ; alk. paper).Subject(s): Risk management | InsuranceDDC classification: 368Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 368 SKI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0064996 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Part I : introduction -- Introduction to risk management and insurance -- Risk perceptions and reactions -- Economics of international trade -- Part II : factors shaping the risk environment internationally -- Societal risk assessment and control -- Catastrophe risk assessment : natural hazards -- Catastrophe risk assessment : human factors -- Societal risk management and changing demographics -- Regulation of private-sector financial services -- Public-sector economic security -- The legal environment -- Sociocultural effects on risk management -- Part III : enterprise risk management in a global economy -- 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 -- part IV : insurance in a global economy -- The economic foundations of insurance -- The nature and importance of insurance -- Life insurance -- Nonlife insurance -- Reinsurance -- Regulation and taxation in insurance markets -- Financial services integration -- Part V : conclusions -- Risk management and insurance in a global economy : a future perspective -- Glossary of key terms and acronyms -- Index.
'Risk Management and Insurance' incorporates an international perspective from the outset, filling the need to address risk issues on an global scale as well as providing an in-depth understanding of international risk management and insurance.