Lloyd's Financial Distress and Contagion within the US Property and Liability Insurance Industry

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-185

  Fields, Joseph A ^a   Klein, Linda S ^a   Myskowski, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagion; Financial distress; Insurance; Lloyd's; Reinsurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032365176     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007786328505     Document Type: Article

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