Managing Economic Exposures of Natural Disasters: Exploring Alternative Financial Risk Management Opportunities and Instruments

Torben Andersen

No 2230, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: The report makes a general assessment of the need for catastrophe risk transfer in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyzes different ways in which risk transfer can take place in the form of conventional reinsurance contracts as well as newer derivative instruments and risk-linked securities.

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Gestión de Riesgo y Financiamento Alternativo; Economic Exposures; Alternative Financial Risk Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-11
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