/ Patricia Grossi, Howard Kunreuther, managing editors
; assisted by Chandu C. Patel
New York, NY
: Springer Science+Business Media,
, c2005.
xix, 245 p. ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 25 cm.
(Huebner international series on risk, insurance, and economic security
; 25)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction :needs, stakeholders, and government initiatives / Patricia Grossi,Howard Kunreuther --An introduction to catastrophe models and insurance /Patricia Grossi,Howard Kunreuther,Don Windeler --The risk assessment process : the role of catastrophe modeling in dealing with natural hazards /Mehrdad Mahdyiar,Beverly Porter -- Sources, nature, and impact of uncertainties on catastrophe modeling / Patricia Grossi,Don Windeler --Use of catastrophe models in insurance rate making /Dennis Kuzak,Tom Larsen --Insurance portfolio management /Weimin Dong,Patricia Grossi --Risk financing /David Lalonde --The impact of mitigation on homeowners and insurers : an analysis of model cities /Paul Kleindorfer,Patricia Grossi,Howard Kunreuther --The impact of risk transfer instruments : an analysis of model cities /Howard Kunreuther,Paul Kleindorfer,Patricia Grossi --Extending catastrophe modeling to terrorism /Howard Kunreuther,Erwann Michel-Kerjan,Beverly Porter.