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Optimal Reinsurance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Steven A. Lippman
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Most insurance companies are involved in reinsurance activities. For the majority, reinsurance means laying-off portions of the risk that they have assumed in the primary insurance market. A few other companies assume these laid-off risks. Our concern is with the former companies; that is, those seeking to cede a portion of their risk.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 7 , Issue 5 , December 1972 , pp. 2151 - 2155
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1972

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