If catastrophe seems to be, for many authors, the matrix of modern times, it is relatively absent from managerial concerns. The approach of catastrophic risk management seems to suffer from a rigid dominant definition of risk and oscillate in a movement between omission and overstatement. This...

This working paper has been presented and discussed at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Experts Meeting. The objective of the paper is two fold: (1) present comparable results for household financial and non financial assets and liabilities for Europe, the USA and Japan, (2) analyse the...