Decomposing catastrophic risk
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Harris Schlesinger
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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It is examined how losses can be decomposed into two multiplicative components, one independent among insureds and the other highly correlated. This is done for both the severity of loss, and for the probability of a loss. As opposed to a common principle for the insurability of a loss, it is shown