examine the contribution that reinsurance has made to enhancing the capacity of the primary insurance market to manage …This report makes use of a unique set of data on premiums and claims provided by global reinsurance companies to … catastrophe risk and to reducing the economic and insurance market disruption that often follows catastrophic events. …

providing insurance for catastrophe risks and catastrophe reinsurance oversight implemented in four Asian countries: India …Insurance markets play an essential role in the financial management of disaster risks by encouraging proper risk … governments as a result of catastrophic events. The pooling of risks of many insureds by insurance companies allows for the …

, governments and international organizations. This report focuses on the role of insurance and reinsurance companies in the … various environmental pollution insurance products and techniques developed in response to legal and factual evolutions. In … addition, it describes the special features of natural catastrophe risks, the role of traditional insurance markets in the …

This volume is the fourth of a series devoted to major policy issues in insurance. It comprises an in-depth analysis on … the assessment and the management of the major technical and financial risks insurance companies have to face. It responds … to the growing concerns of economic, financial, political and social actors in the insurance market. It addresses the …

well as government and private sector information and experience-sharing on how governments and the financial and insurance …