The Palgrave Handbook of Unconventional Risk Transfer

by Maurizio Pompella, Nicos A Scordis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319592961
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/04/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	583
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Theoretical Perspective on Risk Management.- Chapter 3: A Practical Perspective on Corporate Risk Management.- Chapter 4: Reinsurance, Insurability and the New Paradigms of Unconventional Risk Transfer.- Chapter 5: Enterprise Risk Management and the Risk Management Process.- Chapter 6: Credit Risk Transfer with Single-Name Credit Default Swaps.- Chapter 7: Natural Hazards.- Chapter 8: Anthropic Perils and Man-Made Risks.- Chapter 9: Mortality and Longevity Risk.- Chapter 10: Country risk: case study on crises examples and lessons learnt.- Chapter 11: Disaster Vulnerability.- Chapter 12: Insurance Linked Securities—Structured and Market Solutions.- Chapter 13: Longevity Risk Transfer.- Chapter 14: Quantitative Man-made Risks Modelling. Chapter 15: Pandemic Risk Modelling.- Chapter 16: Assembling Individual ILS into an Optimal Portfolio.- Chapter 17: Stress Testing with Bayesian Nets and Related Techniques: Meeting the Engineering Challenges.