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Making a market for acts of God : the practice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry / Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199664764 (Hbk.)
  • 9780198783770 (Pbk.)
  • 0199664765
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 368.0122 23 JAR.M
LOC classification:
  • HG8083 .J37 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Reinsurance : a market for acts of God -- 2. United we stand, divided we fall : bearing risk collectively -- 3. Transforming disasters into tradable deals -- 4. Calculation at the frontier : evaluation in the absence of models -- 5. One firm's trash is another's treasure : competing in a consensus market -- 6. Unraveling the nest : from a market for acts of God to a market for commodities -- 7. Addressing "big questions" : advancing a practice theory of the market.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.

1. Reinsurance : a market for acts of God -- 2. United we stand, divided we fall : bearing risk collectively -- 3. Transforming disasters into tradable deals -- 4. Calculation at the frontier : evaluation in the absence of models -- 5. One firm's trash is another's treasure : competing in a consensus market -- 6. Unraveling the nest : from a market for acts of God to a market for commodities -- 7. Addressing "big questions" : advancing a practice theory of the market.

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