Risk Management and the Environment : Agriculture in Perspective

Bruce A. Babcock
Hardcover - $229.95

This book addresses one of the key features of contemporary government policy: how to integrate the economic role of agriculture with the societal role of the rural environment. Historical agricultural policy has focussed on encouraging production wh ...

Deposit Insurance Around the World Deposit Insurance Around the World : Issues of Design and Implementation Issues of Design and Implementation

Aslı Demirguc-Kunt
Hardcover - $86.95

The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

Kenneth Froot
Hardcover - $180.95

Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a single catastrophic event might exceed $10 billion was unthinkable. With ever increasing property-cas ...

Catastrophe Insurance : Consumer Demand, Markets and Regulation

Martin F. Grace
Hardcover - $273.95

This monograph presents the results of the first significant attempt to examine the nature of the demand for insurance against natural disasters at a detailed, microeconomic level. The subject is homeowners' multiperil insurance used to cover owner-o ...

Risk Management and Regulation in Banking

International Conference on Risk Managem
Hardcover - $279.95

Over the last fifty years, increasingly sophisticated risk measurement and management techniques have revolutionized the field of finance. More recently, the globalization of financial markets and policy changes in the regulation of financial institu ...

Operational Risk : The New Challenge for Banks

Gerrit Jan Van Den Brink
Hardcover - $264.95

Operational risk is one of the oldest risks in the banking sector, and yet regulatory bodies including the Basle Committee are still working on a regulatory framework. Damage control measures introduced by banks have often proved ineffective. The suc ...