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Dewey Class	368.01
Title	Making Decisions About Liability And Insurance ([EBook] :) : A Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty / / edited by Colin Camerer, Howard Kunreuther.
Added Personal Name	Camerer, Colin editor.
Added Personal Name	Kunreuther, Howard editor.
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	Dordrecht : : Springer Netherlands : : Imprint: Springer, , 1993.
Physical Details	139 p. : online resource.
ISBN	9789401121927
Summary Note	Two related trends have created novel challenges for managing risk in the United States. The first trend is a series of dramatic changes in liability law as tort law has expanded to assign liability to defendants for reasons other than negligence. The unpredictability of future costs induced by changes in tort law may be partly responsible for the second major trend known as the `liability crisis' - the disappearance of liability protection in markets for particularly unpredictable risks. This book examines decisions people make about insurance and liability. An understanding of such decision making may help explain why the insurance crisis resulted from the new interpretations of tort law and what to do about it. The articles cover three kinds of decisions: consumer decisions to purchase insurance; insurer decisions about coverage they offer; and the decisions of the public about the liability rules they prefer, which are reflected in legislation and regulation. For each of these three kinds of decisions, normative theories such as expected utility theory can be used as benchmarks against which actual decisions are judged.:
Contents note	Making Decisions about Liability and Insurance: Editors’ Comments -- Intuitions about Penalties and Compensation in the Context of Tort Law -- Framing, Probability Distortions, and Insurance Decisions -- Transaction Analysis: A Framework and an Application to Insurance Decisions -- Insurer Ambiguity and Market Failure -- Ambiguity and Risk Taking in Organizations -- Insurance for Low-Probability Hazards: A Bimodal Response to Unlikely Events -- The Risky Business of Insurance Pricing.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2192-7
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Actuarial science . Actuarial Sciences . Decision making . Finance . Finance, general . Mathematics . Microeconomics . Operation Research/Decision Theory . Operations research . Authors: Camerer, Colin . Kunreuther, Howard . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Classification: 368.01 .

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