Financial Risk and Derivatives provides an excellent illustration of the links that have developed in recent years between the theory of finance on one hand and insurance economics and actuarial science on the other. Advances in contingent claims analysis and developments in the academic and...

1 Introduction -- 2 Borch’s Theorem: A historical survey of applications -- I: Economics of Uncertainty -- 3 The role of securities and labor contracts in the optimal allocation of risk-bearing -- 4 Proportional risk aversion and saving decisions under uncertainty -- II: Economics of...

Much of the traditional economic theory of insurance is based on the assumption that the risk against which insurance is to be purchased is entirely exogenous. This is usually modelled by simply allowing the individual to include insurance as a mechanism of covering risk, without any real...

The paper is written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics, known as “The Geneva Association”. It reviews the evolution of insurance economics, by first recalling the situation in 1973, then presenting the developments...