Risk Management Programme

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Risk Management is a research programme set up by the Geneva Association, also known as the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics. The focus of this programme is manifold and address the following issues: fostering the use of the tools of risk assessment and risk management in new fields of application such as policy making; providing a platform between the insurance community, the engineering and academic communities and policy makers to discuss risk issues; promoting the concept of the insurability of risks as the natural borderline between State legislation and the market economy; identifying new opportunities for insurers in the emerging sustainability concept in order to enlarge the field of insurable risks.^[1]

1 Selected Key Issues
2 Publications
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Selected Key Issues

What are the vulnerabilities in our industrial and services value-added processes?
Where are the mechanisms for understanding, managing and mitigating these risks?
How can insurance cope with a more complex and demanding risk scenario?
What is the new risk environment that has been created in recent years?
What about technologies being a new source of vulnerability?

[edit] Publications

Risk Management, Geneva Association Information Newsletter, The Geneva Association

Etudes et Dossiers, Working Paper Series, The Geneva Association

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, formerly The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (until March 2005), The Geneva Association & Springer

Pensions and Life Insurance and Risk Management/M.O.R.E, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Vol.29 - No.3 / July 2004, Palgrave Macmillan

Special Issue on Risk Management, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Vol.27 - No.2 / April 2002, Palgrave Macmillan

Strategic Issues in Risk Management and Insurance, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Vol.24 - No.3 / July 1999, Palgrave Macmillan

Issues in Risk Management and Insurance, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Vol.24 - No.2 / April 1999, Palgrave Macmillan

Risk Management Strategies, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, No.80 / July 1996

Risk Management Issues, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, No.76 / July 1995

1973-1993 Twenty Years of Initiatives and Research on the Economic Role of Insurance and Risk Management in Modern Society, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, No.68 / July 1993

Risk Management Studies, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, No.64 / July 1992

Hazardous Waste Management, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, No.51 / April 1989

Risk and Society, The Discount Rate and Risk and Insurance Issues, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, No.48 / July 1988