+Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Catastrophic Risks and Insurance (provided by: SourceOECD)
"[T]he OECD organised a conference on 22-23rd November 2004 in Paris, to stimulate high level policy discussion betwee representatives of governments, the private sector and the academia from OECD and emerging economies on ways to handle losses caused by large-scale catastrophes.The conference brought together some 150 participants, including experts from relevant ministries and supervisory authorities, institutions in charge of catastrophe or specifically terrorism risk compensation, representatives of the insurance and reinsurance industry, brokers, modelling firms, rating agencies, security firms, etc. as well as leading academic experts and representatives from various international organisations...This volume provides a selection of papers and reports presented at the conference." -foreword
