Handbook of Insurance : Volume II

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: History -- Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: the Past 40 Years -- Part 2 : Risk and Insurance Theory Without Information Problems -- Higher-Order Risk Attitudes -- Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm -- The Economics of Optimal Insurance Design -- The Effects of Changes in Risk on Risk Taking: A Survey -- Risk Measures and Dependence Modeling -- The Theory of Insurance Demand.-Prevention and Precaution -- Part 3 : Asymmetric Information: Theory -- Optimal Insurance Contracts under Moral Hazard -- Adverse Selection in Insurance Contracting -- The Theory of Risk Classification -- The Economics of Liability Insurance -- Economic Analysis of Insurance Fraud -- Part 4: Asymmetric Information: Empirical Analysis -- Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets: Predictions and Tests -- The Empirical Measure of Information Problems with Emphasis on Insurance Fraud and Dynamic Data -- Workers’ Compensation: Occupational Injury Insurance’s Influence on the Workplace -- Experience Rating in Non-Life Insurance -- Part 5 : Risk Management -- On the Demand for Corporate Insurance – Creating Value -- Managing Catastrophic Risks through Redesigned Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities -- Innovations in Insurance Markets: Hybrid and Securitized Risk-Transfer Solutions -- Risk Sharing and Pricing in the Reinsurance Market -- Part 6 : Insurance Pricing -- Financial Pricing of Insurance -- Insurance Price Volatility and Underwriting Cycles -- Part 7 : Industrial Organization of Insurance Markets -- On the Choice of Organizational Form: Theory and Evidence from the Insurance Industry -- Insurance Distribution -- Corporate Governance in the Insurance Industry: A Synthesis -- Systemic Risk and the Insurance Industry -- Analyzing Firm Performance in the Insurance Industry Using Frontier Efficiency and Productivity Methods -- Capital Allocation and its Discontents -- Capital and RisksInterrelationships in the Life and Health Insurance Industries: Theories and Applications -- Insurance Market Regulation: Catastrophe Risk, Competition, and Systemic Risk -- Insurance Markets in Developing Countries: Economic Importance and Retention Capacity -- Part 8: Health and Long-Term Care Insurance, Longevity Risk, Life Insurance, and Social Insurance -- Health Insurance in the United States -- Longevity Risk and Hedging Solutions -- Long-Term Care Insurance -- New Life Insurance Financial Products -- The Division of Labor Between Private and Social Insurance.