Catastrophic Risk: Analysis and Management灾难风险：分析与管理
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作者： Erik Banks 著
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出版时间： 2005-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 178印刷时间： 2005/05/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780470012369包装： 精装内容简介
Catastrophic risk is one of the most significant and challenging areas of corporate risk management. Analyze this risk for your company with Catastrophic Risk and make sure you have sufficient resources to absorb losses and avoid financial distress.
The first comprehensive volume to address this topic from a financial perspective, this book is a guide to the worst financial risks threatening companies and industries today. Author Eric Banks begins with a consideration of catastrophe and its mplications, looks at the state of actuarial and financial modelling of catastrophe risks, and discusses the creation of a risk management framework that will enable the efficient and secure management of exposure. Catastrophic Risk is essential reading if you're a corporate treasurer, CFO, or insurance/financial risk manager responsible for corporate risk management. Order your copy today.
作者简介
ERIK BANKS, an independent risk consultant, writer, and lecturer, has held senior risk management positions at several global financial institutions over the past 20 years, including Merrill Lynch, Citibank, and XL Capital. He is the author of 18 books on risk, derivatives, governance, and merchant banking, including the John Wiley titles Alternative Risk Transfer, Exchange-Traded Derivatives, The Simple Rules of Risk, and E-Finance.
目录
Acknowledgments
About the author
PART I: IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF CATASTROPHIC RISK
1 Catastrophe and Risk
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The nature of catastrophe
1.2.1 A definition
1.2.2 Frequency
1.2.3 Vulnerability
1.2.4 Measuring severity
1.3 The scope of impact
1.4 Catastrophe and the risk management framework
1.5 Overview of the book
2 Risk Identification I: Perils
2.1 Natural catastrophe
2.1.1 Geophysical
2.1.2 Meteorological/atmospheric
2.1.3 Other natural disasters
2.2 Man-made catastrophe
2.2.1 Terrorism
2.2.2 Industrial contamination
2.2.3 Technological failure
2.2.4 Financial dislocation
2.3 Mega-catastrophe and clash loss
3 Risk Identification II: Regional Vulnerability
3.1 Spatial impact of natural catastrophes
3.1.1 Bermuda and the North American Atlantic Coast
3.1.2 Florida
3.1.3 North American West Coast
3.1.4 US Great Plains/Midwest
3.1.5 Caribbean
3.1.6 Mexico
3.1.7 Japan
3.1.8 South Asia/Southeast Asia
3.1.9 Middle East/Near East
3.1.10 Europe
3.2 Spatial impact of man-made catastrophes
3.2.1 North America
3.2.2 Europe
3.2.3 Asia/Pacific
3.3 Urban vulnerabilities
4 Modeling Catastrophic Risk
4.1 The development and use of models
4.2 The goals of catastrophe modeling
4.3 General model construction
4.3.1 Phase one: Hazard/peril assessment
4.3.2 Phase two: Vulnerability assessment
4.3.3 Phase three: Contract assessment
4.3.4 A general example
4.3.5 Other perils
4.4 Challenges
4.4.1 Model characteristics and assumptions
4.4.2 Model validation
4.4.3 Tail risks
4.4.4 Data quality and granularity
PART II: MANAGEMENT OF CATASTROPHIC RISK
5 Catastrophe and the Risk Management Framework
5.1 Active risk management
5.1.1 Enterprise value, liquidity, and solvency
5.1.2 Loss control, loss financing, and risk reduction
5.2 Risk monitoring
5.3 Private and public sector efforts
5.4 Sources of capital
5.4.1 Insurers/reinsurers
5.4.2 Investment funds
5.4.3 Financial institutions
5.5 Toward active risk management
6 Catastrophe Insurance and Reinsurance
6.1 Insurable risk and insurance
6.1.1 Full insurance
6.1.2 Partial insurance
6.1.3 Captives
6.2 Catastrophe insurance
6.3 Reinsurance
6.3.1 Facultative and treaty reinsurance
6.3.2 Proportional and excess of loss agreements
6.4 Catastrophe reinsurance
6.5 Market cycles
6.6 Internal risk management
6.7 Challenges
6.7.1 Pricing difficulties
6.7.2 Earnings and capital volatility
6.7.3 Concentrations
6.7.4 Limits to insurability/uninsurable risks
6.7.5 Lack of insurance/reinsurance penetration
6.7.6 Capacity constraints
6.7.7 Contagion effects and systemic concerns
7 Catastrophe Bonds and Contingent Capital
7.1 Overview of securitization
7.2 Catastrophe bonds
7.2.1 Standard structures
7.2.2 Innovations
7.2.3 Market focus and direction
7.3 Contingent capital
7.3.1 Standard structures
7.3.2 Contingent debt
7.3.3 Contingent equity
7.4 Challenges
7.4.1 Structural flaws
7.4.2 Regulatory differences
8 Catastrophe Derivatives
8.1 Overview of derivatives
8.1.1 Exchange-traded derivatives
8.1.2 OTC derivatives
8.2 Exchange-traded catastrophe derivatives
8.3 OTC Catastrophe derivatives
8.3.1 Catastrophe reinsurance swaps
8.3.2 Pure catastrophe swaps
8.3.3 Synthetic OTC structures
8.4 Challenges
8.4.1 Index construction and basis risks
8.4.2 Lack of contract transparency
8.4.3 One-way markets
8.4.4 Pricing difficulties
8.4.5 Regulatory barriers
9 Public Sector Management and Financing
9.1 Forms of public sector involvement
9.1.1 Ex ante loss control measures
9.1.2 Insurance/reinsurance
9.1.3 Ex post crisis management
9.1.4 Financing and subsidies
9.1.5 Financial regulation
9.2 Challenges
9.2.1 Voluntary versus mandatory measures
9.2.2 Public and private sector responsibilities
9.2.3 Lack of market access and capacity
10 Outlook and Conclusions
10.1 Loss control
10.1.1 Loss control implementation
10.1.2 Enforcing urban planning
10.2 Quantification
10.2.1 Modeling requirements
10.2.2 Transparency
10.2.3 Complexity of terrorism
10.3 Loss financing
10.3.1 Vulnerabilities and risk capacity
10.3.2 Discriminatory funding and insurance
10.4 Government participation
10.4.1 Optimal government role
10.4.2 Limited government resources
10.4.3 Adverse incentives
10.4.4 Market deregulation
10.5 General management
10.5.1 Sub-optimal management
10.5.2 Sustainability of solutions
10.5.3 Preparing for the mega-catastrophe
10.5.4 Amalgamated solutions
10.5.5 Learning from past events
Bibliography
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