The current paper provides a general approach to construct distortion operators that can price financial and insurance risks. Our approach generalizes the Wang (2000) transform and recovers multiple distortions proposed in the literature as particular cases. This approach enables designing...

We study how traditional reinsurance and CAT bonds can be combined to build an optimal catastrophe insurance programme. We develop a contingent claims model to investigate the imperfections and limitations of the reinsurance market stemming from financial distress costs and default risk. We find...

Although several works have highlighted the diversification benefits of catastrophe (CAT) bond funds as well as the attracting returns they offer, there is a lack in the literature regarding what econometric models are suitable to predict the risks of such funds. This note contributes by...

In this paper, we develop a methodology to model the risk of losses resulting from a natural disaster in which the intensity parameter of the non-homogeneous Poisson process has an upward trend and a seasonal component. We apply this model to losses due to floods in the Financial Assistance...