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The Palgrave Handbook of Unconventional Risk Transfer

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides the first comprehensive reference in risk transfer between financial intermediaries
  • Covers all the main financial and pure risk routing channels used in risk transfer
  • Contributions from distinguished academics and professionals from around the world
  • Coverage of new and emerging risk areas in mortality/longevity risk, and environmental risks

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    • Maurizio Pompella, Nicos A. Scordis
    Pages 1-4
  3. Risk Management Strategies and Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. A Practical Perspective on Corporate Risk Management

      • Nicos A. Scordis, Annette Hofmann
      Pages 35-54
  4. Conventional vs Unconventional Transfer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Credit Risk Transfer with Single-Name Credit Default Swaps

      • Christopher L. Culp, Andria van der Merwe, Bettina J. Stärkle
      Pages 143-185
  5. Risks by Class

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Natural Hazards

      • Joanna Faure Walker
      Pages 189-239
    3. Anthropic Perils and Man-Made Risks

      • Gordon Woo
      Pages 241-267
    4. Mortality and Longevity Risk

      • Erzsébet Kovács, Péter Vékás
      Pages 269-297
    5. Country Risk: Case Study on Crises Examples and Lessons Learnt

      • Vasily Solodkov, Yana Tsyganova
      Pages 299-325
  6. Vulnerability, Market Solutions and Societal Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327
    2. Disaster Vulnerability

      • Joern Birkmann, Linda Sorg, Torsten Welle
      Pages 329-356
    3. Insurance-Linked Securities: Structured and Market Solutions

      • Annette Hofmann, David Pooser
      Pages 357-373
    4. Longevity Risk Transfer

      • Douglas Anderson, Steven Baxter
      Pages 375-434
  7. Risk Modelling and Stress Testing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 435-435
    2. Quantitative Man-Made Risks’ Modelling

      • Gordon Woo
      Pages 437-462

About this book

This handbook examines the latest techniques and strategies that are used to unlock the risk transfer capacity of global financial and capital markets. Taking the financial crisis and global recession into account, it frames and contextualises non-traditional risk transfer tools created over the last 20 years. Featuring contributions from distinguished academics and professionals from around the world, this book covers in detail issues in securitization, financial risk management and innovation, structured finance and derivatives, life and non-life pure risk management, market and financial reinsurance, CAT risk management, crisis management, natural, environmental and man-made risks, terrorism risk, risk modelling, vulnerability and resilience. This handbook will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners in the field of risk transfer.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Economics and Management, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Maurizio Pompella

  • Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University, New York, USA

    Nicos A Scordis

About the editors

Maurizio Pompella is Professor of Financial Intermediaries Economics at the School of Economics and Management at the University of Siena, Italy. He is highly sought for his teaching, and has lectured at Universities in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russian Federation and China. Among his other scholarly pursuits he has been serving as a reviewer for the prestigious Journal of Risk and Insurance, and is the Editor of the forthcoming series Palgrave Studies in Risk and Insurance.

Nicos Scordis is a Professor at the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science at St. John’s University in New York, USA. He was honoured with the prestigious Les B. Strickler Innovation in Instruction Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association for his educational contributions to the developing speciality of alternative risk transfer. He publishes both in scholarly journals and in professional publications on the top

ic of value creation in the risk and insurance industry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Unconventional Risk Transfer

  • Editors: Maurizio Pompella, Nicos A Scordis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59297-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59296-1Published: 14 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86591-1Published: 22 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59297-8Published: 04 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 583

  • Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Insurance, Risk Management

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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