This paper examines the optimal design of insurance and reinsurance policies. We first consider reinsurance for … catastrophes: risks which are large for any one insurer but not for the reinsurance market as a whole. Reinsurance for catastrophes … public optimal reinsurance employs a deductible-style deductible-style excess-of-loss policy, and when is is private but the …

regional-level mitigation or adaptation, which reduces disaster risks to capital in the interim. Mitigation depends on belief … regarding the adverse consequences of global warming. Pessimism jumps with a disaster and slowly reverts in the absence of … increasing cyclone frequency. For a typical country exposed to cyclones, a disaster arrival not only damages its capital stock …

which a disaster insurance program should be based. Section 3 then focuses on the second question by analyzing the …. Section 4 turns to the third question and delineates the opportunities and challenges of a comprehensive disaster insurance … program. Section 5 poses a set of open issues that are currently being addressed by a research project on disaster insurance …

supply of intermediary capital is perfectly elastic. We take the US catastrophe reinsurance market as an example, using … results suggest that the price of reinsurance generally exceeds fair' values, particularly in the aftermath of large events …

relatively little cat reinsurance against large events. We also find that premiums are high relative to expected losses … transactions that look to capital markets, rather than traditional reinsurance markets, for risk-bearing capacity. These provide …

relatively little cat reinsurance against large events. We also find that premiums are high relative to expected losses … transactions that look to capital markets, rather than traditional reinsurance markets, for risk-bearing capacity. These provide …

transferring risk are being explored. The paper studies several recent transactions by USAA which use reinsurance capacity from …

relatively little cat reinsurance against large events. We also find that premiums are high relative to expected losses … transactions that look to capital markets, rather than traditional reinsurance markets, for risk-bearing capacity. These provide …