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Making a market for acts of God : the practice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jarzabkowski, Paula (Author), Bednarek, Rebecca (Author), Spee, Paul (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.