"The fields of insurance law and insurance economics have long and distinguished scholarly histories, but participants in the two disciplines have not always communicated well across academic silos. This Handbook encourages more policy-relevant insurance economics scholarship and more economically sophisticated legal scholarship by bringing together original contributions from leading scholars in both fields. The benefits of this inter-d ..."
Law and Economics of Insurance (Economic Approaches to Law series) by DanielSchwarcz Hardcover, 1,476 Pages, Published 2012 by Edward Elgar Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-85793-128-3, ISBN: 0-85793-128-8
"This timely two-volume collection successfully combines economically-oriented legal scholarship on insurance with policy-relevant economics scholarship on insurance. Professor Schwarcz has selected seminal contributions from the past twenty years to explore some of the central questions involving the role of the state in insurance markets. These include rules governing the interpretation and enforceability of insurance contracts, the re ..."
"This casebook, which has been used as the principal text in more than one hundred law schools, contains extensive material on insurance contract formation and interpretation; insurance regulation; insurable interest and liability for bad-faith breach; property, health, life, and disability insurance; commercial general liability and directors & officers liability insurance; auto insurance; and reinsurance. The casebook gives equal empha ..."
"'A dazzling collection of essays from leading experts in the field, this volume offers a superb overview of the economics of insurance and the implications for insurance law and regulation, covering a host of topical policy issues from health care reform and solvency regulation to the organization of insurance supervision and the optimal design of insurance contracts. For both students of insurance regulation and experienced practitione ..."
"Contributors. Kenneth S. Abraham, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished
Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law Danial Asmat, Economist,
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Ronen Avraham, University of
Texas Law ... Georgia State University Scott E. Harrington, Alan B. Miller
Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Dwight Jaffee, Willis
Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate, Ha ..."
"This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer’s work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that recover Barreto’s œuvre and consider a wide ..."