Making a market for acts of God : the practice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry / Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee.
By: Jarzabkowski, Paula [author.].
Contributor(s): Bednarek, Rebecca [author.] | Spee, Paul [author.].
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First edition.Description: xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199664764.Subject(s): Reinsurance | Disaster insuranceGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HG8083 .J37 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009445 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.
1. Reinsurance : a market for acts of God -- 2. United we stand, divided we fall : bearing risk collectively -- 3. Transforming disasters into tradable deals -- 4. Calculation at the frontier : evaluation in the absence of models -- 5. One firm's trash is another's treasure : competing in a consensus market -- 6. Unraveling the nest : from a market for acts of God to a market for commodities -- 7. Addressing "big questions" : advancing a practice theory of the market.