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Pricing Excess-of-Loss Reinsurance Contracts against Cat as trophic Loss

In: The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

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David Cummins
Christopher Lewis
Richard Phillips

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This chapter was published in: David Cummins & Christopher Lewis & Richard Phillips The Financing of Catastrophe Risk, , pages 93-148, 1999.

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Kenneth A. Froot, 1999. "The Financing of Catastrophe Risk," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number froo99-1.
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  1. Cummins, J. David & Dionne, Georges & McDonald, James B. & Pritchett, B. Michael, 1990. "Applications of the GB2 family of distributions in modeling insurance loss processes," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 257-272, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Mayers, David & Smith, Clifford W, Jr, 1982. "On the Corporate Demand for Insurance," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 55(2), pages 281-96, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Naik, Vasanttilak & Lee, Moon, 1990. "General Equilibrium Pricing of Options on the Market Portfolio with Discontinuous Returns," Review of Financial Studies, Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies, vol. 3(4), pages 493-521. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Cummins, J. David & Grace, Elizabeth, 1994. "Tax management and investment strategies of property-liability insurers," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 43-72, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Merton, Robert C., 1976. "Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(1-2), pages 125-144. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Heston, Steven L, 1993. " Invisible Parameters in Option Prices," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 48(3), pages 933-47, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Mayers, David & Smith, Clifford W, Jr, 1990. "On the Corporate Demand for Insurance: Evidence from the Reinsurance Market," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 63(1), pages 19-40, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Martin Nell & Andreas Richter, 2000. "Catastrophe Index-Linked Securities and Reinsurance as Substituties," Working Paper Series: Finance and Accounting 56, Department of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. [Downloadable!]
  2. Kent Smetters, 2005. "Insuring Against Terrorism: The Policy Challenge," NBER Working Papers 11038, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. J. David Cummins & Christopher M. Lewis, 2002. "Catastrophic Events, Parameter Uncertainty and the Breakdown of Implicit Long-term Contracting in the Insurance Market: The Case of Terrorism Insurance," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 02-40, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania. [Downloadable!]
  4. James F. Moore, 1999. "Tail Estimation and Catastrophe Security Pricing: Can We Tell What Target We Hit if We Are Shooting in the Dark?," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 99-14, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania. [Downloadable!]
  5. Kenneth A. Froot & Paul G. J. O'Connell, 1997. "On The Pricing of Intermediated Risks: Theory and Application to Catastrophe Reinsurance," NBER Working Papers 6011, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. David M. Cutler & Richard J. Zeckhauser, 1997. "Reinsurance for Catastrophes and Cataclysms," NBER Working Papers 5913, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Epperson, James E., 2008. "Securitizing peanut production risk with catastrophe (CAT) bonds," Faculty Series 44512, University of Georgia, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. [Downloadable!]
  8. Walter Kraemer & Sebastian Schich, 2008. "Large-Scale Disasters and the Insurance Industry," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  9. J. David Cummins & David Lalonde & Richard D. Phillips, 2000. "The Basis Risk of Catastrophic-Loss Index Securities," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 00-22, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania. [Downloadable!]
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