Making a market for acts of God
Subtitle: the practice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry
By: Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee
Contributors: Bednarek, Rebecca, author; Spee, Paul, author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780199664764
Subjects: Reinsurance; Disaster insurance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Reinsurance : a market for acts of God -- -- 2.; title: United we stand, divided we fall : bearing risk collectively -- -- 3.; title: Transforming disasters into tradable deals -- -- 4.; title: Calculation at the frontier : evaluation in the absence of models -- -- 5.; title: One firm's trash is another's treasure : competing in a consensus market -- -- 6.; title: Unraveling the nest : from a market for acts of God to a market for commodities -- -- 7.; title: Addressing "big questions" : advancing a practice theory of the market.