Books Available for Review in the JRI (updated 6-11-09)  To request a book, contact cather@psu.edu
Title	Author	Year	Pages	Publisher	ISBN
Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy	J. Quigley, L. Rosenthal	2008	242	Berkeley Public Policy Press	978-0-87772-427-8
Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples	P. Schuck, R. Zeckhauser	2006	170	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-9389-2
Government Failure Versus Market Failure (Under Review)	C. Winston	2006	130	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-7880-6
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events & Wild Cards in Global Politics	F. Fukuyama	2007	198	Brookings Institution Press	978-0-8157-2990-7
Actuarial Models: The Mathematics of Insurance	V. Rotar	2007	633	Chapman & Hall	978-1-58488-586-3
American-Style Derivatives: Valuation and Computation (Under Review)	J. Detemple	2006	228	Chapman & Hall	978-1-58488-567-2
Solvency: Models, Assessment & Regulation (Under Review)	A. Sandstrom	2006	433	Chapman & Hall	978-1-58488-554-2
Statistics & Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science	P. Boland	2007	351	Chapman & Hall	978-1-58488-695-1
Uncertainty & Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives	G. Bammer, M. Smithson (editors)	2008	382	Earthscan	978-1-84407-474-7
Insurance Ethics for a More Ethical World	P. Flanagan, P. Primeaux, W. Ferguson	2007	279	Elsevier	978-0-7623-1333-4
Fair Value & Pension Fund Management	Zeist, T. Nijman, E Ponds	2006	218	Elsevier	978-0-444-52245-0
The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda	S. Davis, J. Lukomnik, D. Pitt-Watson	2006	304	Harvard Business School Press	978-1-4221-0101-8
Protecting the Poor: A Microinsurance Compendium	C. Churchill (Editor)	2006	654	International Labour Office & Munich Re Foundation	978-92-2-119254-1
Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management (Forthcoming)	D. Anderson	2005	442	iUniverse	978-0595364608
Fixing Global Finance	M. Wolf	2008	230	Johns Hopkins Press	978-0-8018-9048-2
Competitive Failures in Insurance Markets	P. Chiappori, C. Gollier	2006	344	MIT Press	978-0-262-03352-7
The Resiliant Enterprise	Y. Sheffi	2005	368	MIT Press	978-0-262-19537-9
The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies	V. Galasso	2007	257	MIT Press	978-0-262-07273-1
Precautionary Politics: Principles & Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk	K. Whiteside	2006	182	MIT Press	978-0-262-73179-9
Insurance Decision-Making and Market Behavior	H. Kunreuther, M. Pauly	2006	72	Now Publishers	978-1-933019-25-3
Corporate Decision-Making with Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Performance & Risk Management	L. Oxelheim, C. Wihlborg	2008	244	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-533574-3
Restructuring Retirement Risks	D. Blitzstein, O. Mitchell, S. Utkus	2006	272	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-920465-6
Legal Risk in the Financial Markets	R. McCormick	2006	328	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-928191-6
Insurance Intermediation: An Economic Analysis of the Information Services Market	M. Eckardt	2007	246	Physica-Verlag	978-3-7908-1939-7
The Economic Theory of Annuities	E. Sheshinski	2008	163	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-13305-8
Quanitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools	A. McNeil, R. Frey, P. Embrechts	2006	608	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-12255-7
The Econometrics of Individual Risk: Credit, Insurance, and Marketing	C. Gourieroux, J. Jasiak	2006	256	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-12066-9
For All These Rights: Business, Labor, & the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State	J. Klein	2006	384	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-12605-0
The Theory of Corporate Finance (Under Review)	J. Tirole	2006	639	Princeton University Press	978-0-691-12556-2
Pensionomics: On the Role of Paygo in Pension Portfolios	M. Jakal	2006	316	Springer	978-3-540-32597-0
Semi-Markov Risk Models for Finance, Insurance, & Reliability	J. Janssen, R. Manca	2007	422	Springer	978-0-387-70729-7
Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured & What Govt. Can Do	K. Swartz	2006	176	Russell Sage Foundation	978-0-87154-787-3
Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Towards Disaster Resilient Societies	J. Birkmann (editor)	2006	524	United Nations University Press	978-92-808-1135-3
The Medical Malpractice Myth	T. Baker	2007	214	U. Chicago Press	978-0-226-03649-6
The Risks of Financial Institutions	M. Carey, R. Stulz	2007	520	U. Chicago Press	978-0-226-09285-0
Calculating Political Risk	C. Althaus	2008	304	U. New South Wales Press	978-1-921410-53-6
Individual Accounts for Social Security Reform	J. Turner	2006	193	Upjohn Institute	978-0-88099-282-4
Loss Models: From Data to Decisions (3rd Ed.)	S. Klugman, H. Panjer, G. Willmot	2008	726	Wiley	978-0-470-18781-4
Operational Risk Management: A Case Study Approach to Effective Planning & Response	M. Abkowitz	2008	277	Wiley	978-0-470-25698-5
Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance (Under Review)	X. S. Lin, Soc.of Actuaries	2006	248	Wiley	978-0-471-71642-6
Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management (Forthcoming)	N. Chan, H. Wong	2006	240	Wiley	978-0-471-46987-2
Actuarial Theory for Dependent Risks: Measures, Orders, & Models	M. Denuit, J. Dhaene, M. Goovaerts, R. Kaas	2005	458	Wiley	978-0-470-01492-9
Operational Risk: Modeling Analytics (Under Review)	H. Panjer	2006	448	Wiley	978-0-471-76089-4
Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics	D. Promislow	2006	392	Wiley	978-0-470-01689-3
Pension Finance	D. Blake	2006	484	Wiley	978-0-470-05843-5
Actuarial Modelling of Claim Counts	M. Denuit, X. Marechal, S. Pitrebois, J. Walhin	2007	356	Wiley	978-0-470-02677-9
Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance (Under Review)	W. Ziemba, R. Vickson	2006	756	World Scientific	981-256-800-X