Showing results for "Catastrophe" in Economics

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

Artemis Live - Discussions with leaders in the catastrophe bond (cat bond), insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance, insurance risk transfer and investments space, as well as updates on the cat bond and ILS industry, explainers and how-to's. Artemis.bm was formally launched in early 1999. Its founders held a belief that the capital markets was the deepest, most liquid and efficient source of risk and reinsurance capital available to facilitate the transfer of disaster and other exposures to investors, and that capital market structures such as cat bonds would be the most effective ...