| Books Available for Review in the JRI (updated 11-10-09) To request a book, contact cather@psu.edu | |||||
| Title | Author | Year | Pages | Publisher | ISBN |
| Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance | H. Aaron, L. Burman | 2009 | 282 | Brookings Institution Press | 978-0-8157-0125-5 |
| Operational Risk Management: A Case Study Approach to Effective Planning & Response | M. Abkowitz | 2008 | 277 | Wiley | 978-0-470-25698-5 |
| Calculating Political Risk | C. Althaus | 2008 | 304 | U. New South Wales Press | 978-1-921410-53-6 |
| Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management (Forthcoming) | D. Anderson | 2005 | 442 | iUniverse | 978-0595364608 |
| The Medical Malpractice Myth | T. Baker | 2007 | 214 | U. Chicago Press | 978-0-226-03649-6 |
| Uncertainty & Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives | G. Bammer, M. Smithson (editors) | 2008 | 382 | Earthscan | 978-1-84407-474-7 |
| Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Towards Disaster Resilient Societies (Under Review) | J. Birkmann (editor) | 2006 | 524 | United Nations University Press | 978-92-808-1135-3 |
| Pension Finance | D. Blake | 2006 | 484 | Wiley | 978-0-470-05843-5 |
| Restructuring Retirement Risks | D. Blitzstein, O. Mitchell, S. Utkus | 2006 | 272 | Oxford University Press | 978-0-19-920465-6 |
| Statistics & Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science | P. Boland | 2007 | 351 | Chapman & Hall | 978-1-58488-695-1 |
| The Risks of Financial Institutions | M. Carey, R. Stulz | 2007 | 520 | U. Chicago Press | 978-0-226-09285-0 |
| Protecting the Poor: A Microinsurance Compendium | C. Churchill (Editor) | 2006 | 654 | International Labour Office & Munich Re Foundation | 978-92-2-119254-1 |
| Competitive Failures in Insurance Markets | P. Chiappori, C. Gollier | 2006 | 344 | MIT Press | 978-0-262-03352-7 |
| 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 |
| Actuarial Theory for Dependent Risks: Measures, Orders, & Models | M. Denuit, J. Dhaene, M. Goovaerts, R. Kaas | 2005 | 458 | Wiley | 978-0-470-01492-9 |
| Actuarial Modelling of Claim Counts | M. Denuit, X. Marechal, S. Pitrebois, J. Walhin | 2007 | 356 | Wiley | 978-0-470-02677-9 |
| American-Style Derivatives: Valuation and Computation (Forthcoming) | J. Detemple | 2006 | 228 | Chapman & Hall | 978-1-58488-567-2 |
| Insurance Intermediation: An Economic Analysis of the Information Services Market | M. Eckardt | 2007 | 246 | Physica-Verlag | 978-3-7908-1939-7 |
| Insurance Ethics for a More Ethical World | P. Flanagan, P. Primeaux, W. Ferguson | 2007 | 279 | Elsevier | 978-0-7623-1333-4 |
| Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events & Wild Cards in Global Politics | F. Fukuyama | 2007 | 198 | Brookings Institution Press | 978-0-8157-2990-7 |
| The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies | V. Galasso | 2007 | 257 | MIT Press | 978-0-262-07273-1 |
| The Econometrics of Individual Risk: Credit, Insurance, and Marketing | C. Gourieroux, J. Jasiak | 2006 | 256 | Princeton University Press | 978-0-691-12066-9 |
| The Future of Insurance Regulation in the United States | M. Grace, R. Klein (editors) | 2009 | 232 | Brookings Institution Press | 978-0-8157-0286-3 |
| Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management | J. Hampton | 2009 | 308 | American Management Association | 978-0-8144-1492-7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Loss Models: From Data to Decisions (3rd Ed.) | S. Klugman, H. Panjer, G. Willmot | 2008 | 726 | Wiley | 978-0-470-18781-4 |
| At War with the Weather | H. Kunreuther, E. Michel-Kerjan | 2009 | 416 | MIT Press | 978-0-262-01282-9 |
| Insurance Decision-Making and Market Behavior | H. Kunreuther, M. Pauly | 2006 | 72 | Now Publishers | 978-1-933019-25-3 |
| Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance (Under Review) | X. S. Lin, Soc.of Actuaries | 2006 | 248 | Wiley | 978-0-471-71642-6 |
| Earthscan Reader on Risk | R. Lofstedt, A. Boholm | 2009 | 320 | Earthscan | 978-1-84407-687-1 |
| Legal Risk in the Financial Markets | R. McCormick | 2006 | 328 | Oxford University Press | 978-0-19-928191-6 |
| Quanitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools | A. McNeil, R. Frey, P. Embrechts | 2006 | 608 | Princeton University Press | 978-0-691-12255-7 |
| Corporate Decision-Making with Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Performance & Risk Management | L. Oxelheim, C. Wihlborg | 2008 | 244 | Oxford University Press | 978-0-19-533574-3 |
| Operational Risk: Modeling Analytics (Forthcoming) | H. Panjer | 2006 | 448 | Wiley | 978-0-471-76089-4 |
| Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics | D. Promislow | 2006 | 392 | Wiley | 978-0-470-01689-3 |
| Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy | J. Quigley, L. Rosenthal | 2008 | 242 | Berkeley Public Policy Press | 978-0-87772-427-8 |
| Actuarial Models: The Mathematics of Insurance | V. Rotar | 2007 | 633 | Chapman & Hall | 978-1-58488-586-3 |
| Solvency: Models, Assessment & Regulation (Forthcoming) | A. Sandstrom | 2006 | 433 | Chapman & Hall | 978-1-58488-554-2 |
| Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples | P. Schuck, R. Zeckhauser | 2006 | 170 | Brookings Institution Press | 978-0-8157-9389-2 |
| The Resiliant Enterprise | Y. Sheffi | 2005 | 368 | MIT Press | 978-0-262-19537-9 |
| The Economic Theory of Annuities | E. Sheshinski | 2008 | 163 | Princeton University Press | 978-0-691-13305-8 |
| 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 |
| The Theory of Corporate Finance (Under Review) | J. Tirole | 2006 | 639 | Princeton University Press | 978-0-691-12556-2 |
| Individual Accounts for Social Security Reform | J. Turner | 2006 | 193 | Upjohn Institute | 978-0-88099-282-4 |
| Precautionary Politics: Principles & Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk | K. Whiteside | 2006 | 182 | MIT Press | 978-0-262-73179-9 |
| Government Failure Versus Market Failure (Under Review) | C. Winston | 2006 | 130 | Brookings Institution Press | 978-0-8157-7880-6 |
| Fixing Global Finance | M. Wolf | 2008 | 230 | Johns Hopkins Press | 978-0-8018-9048-2 |
| Fair Value & Pension Fund Management | Zeist, T. Nijman, E Ponds | 2006 | 218 | Elsevier | 978-0-444-52245-0 |
| Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance (Forthcoming) | W. Ziemba, R. Vickson | 2006 | 756 | World Scientific | 981-256-800-X |