Several of the risks currently faced by corporations are shaped by legal rules. Liability rules, for instance, determine the cases in which firms will incur economic losses, either because thay are obliged to compensate for the harm suffered by others, or because they are inflicted monetary...

When tort and insurance (both private and social) co-exist, coordination mechanisms are very relevant. Imperfect liability rules provide the setting to properly analyze the incentives that the coordination mechanisms induce for risk coverage and for precaution...

Catastrophes of all times, Man-made catastrophes; naturla catstrophes; Different forms of government intervention in compensation; law and economics literature is crittical: implicit subsidy...

The growing interconnections beween people, markets, and networks

Insurance has to assess and manage emerging risks. Undertsanding emerging risks includes understanding the social construction of risk: for example, the ermgence of a disease or illness as a social process, not only as an epidemiological phenomenon. The social construction of risk - as Tom Baker...

Study empirically the relationship between liability and insurance in the realm of financial injuries; Evaluate how liability insurance transmits and transforms the deterrence signal of securities liability...

Transaction Liability Insurance; Key Markets; W&I Insurance Overview; Seller's W&I insurance structure; Buyer's W&I insurance structure...

In the 1990's, demographic and economic prospects obliged European countries to reform pensions. More redently, the European COmmission, the OCED and policy makers have been concerned to take measures which encourage silver workers to work later either in their end-of.career company or...

The UK workforce is becoming older and many people over 50 years want and need to continue working. Limited knowledge is available regarding their needs or the organisational issues that will arise. Similarly, there is a paucity of information regarding current work system design for older...

Facing the demographic challenge, an increasing healthy life expectancy and the need of organisations for experience and competencies, the focus of the presented empirical survey is on the workforce capacity of older persons beyond formal retirement age in good mental and physical health. As...