Lots of agreement within the industry; Need to coordinate with other projects; Need to avoid replicating problems with mortgage bonds...

In spite of the fact that they can draw on a larger, more liquid and more diversifiedpool of capital than the equity of reinsurance companies, financial markets have failed to displace reinsurance as the primary risk-sharing vehicle for natural catastrophe risk. We show that this failure can be...

It is widely recognized that "market failure" prevents efficient risksharing in natural disaster insurance. As a consequence, many countriesadopted institutional frameworks presenting public sector participation,often praised as public-private partnerships. We define risk selection asa situation...

There is considerable empirical and experimental evidence that insurance demand issignificantly influenced by an insurance firm’s solvency level. For example, Sommer (1996)and Cummins and Danzon (1997) empirically show that a firm’s financial distress isaccompanied by a decrease in insurance...