Managing international risk
Subtitle: essays commissioned in honor of the centenary of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
By: edited by Richard J. Herring.
Contributors: Herring, Richard.; Global Interdependence Center.; Group of Thirty.; Wharton School.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: International business enterprises -- Finance -- Congresses.; International finance -- Congresses.; Risk management -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Earlier versions of these papers and perspectives were presented at a conference entitled "Managing International Risk" held in Philadelphia on October 26 and 27, 1981. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Global Interdependence Center, the Group of Thirty, and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania"--P. xi.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Richard J. Herring; title: Managing risks to the international economic system / Richard N. Cooper; title: Perspective : political threats to the international economic system / Robert D. Keohane; title: Perspective : the crisis of exogeneity or our reduced ability to deal with risk / Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa; title: Country risk : economic aspects / Jonathan Eaton and Mark Gersovitz; title: Political risk : analysis, process, and purpose / Martin Shubik; title: Country risk : social and cultural aspects / John Dunn; title: Perspective : the risks of lending to developing countries / Helen Hughes; title: Perspective : country risk, a banker's view / Rimmer de Vries; title: Perspective : managing country risk for a manufacturing corporation / John Reid; title: Organizational and institutional responses to international risk / Raymond Vernon; title: Perspective : organizational strategies for coping with country risk / James R. Street; title: Insuring against country risks : descriptive and prescriptive aspects / Howard Kunreuther and Paul Kleindorfer; title: Perspective : country risk insurance, an insurer's view / James M. Wybar.