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Report n°3: Financial protection of critical infrastructure

Table of contents

• Author's short biography
• Preface by patrick lagadec
• preface by jerome contamine
• Introduction
  • The critical infrastructures at issue
  • Financial protection
  • Insurance and extreme events
• On the morning of September 11 2001 : financial protection and new vulnerabilities
  • September 10, 2001 : terrorist risk in insurance policies
  • September 11, 2001 : Insurance against a new form of terrorism
  • September 12: terrorist risk without insurance
• Uncertainty and insurability of catastrophic risk : Why is terrorism different?
  • Potential for catastrophic loss
  • Interdependent risks
  • Lack of historical data and non-informational symmetry
  • "Dynamic uncertainty"
  • The limitations of quantification models
  • Risk perception
  • States as carriers of the terrorist risk
• International analysis of coverage mechanisms : Private-Public Partnerships
  • Commercial terrorism insurance in Spain (Consorcio)
  • Commercial terrorism insurance in the United Kingdom (Pool Re)
  • Commercial terrorism insurance in the United States (TRIA)
  • Commercial terrorism insurance in France (Gareat)
  • Commercial terrorism insurance in Germany (Extremus)
• Conclusion and Perspectives
• references

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