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Shaped by risk: The American fire insurance industry, 1790--1920.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shaped by risk: The American fire insurance industry, 1790--1920./
Author:	Baranoff, Dalit.
Description:	312 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3811.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3107476

Shaped by risk: The American fire insurance industry, 1790--1920.
Baranoff, Dalit.

Shaped by risk: The American fire insurance industry, 1790--1920. - 312 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3811.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2004.

Fire insurance represents one of the first institutional approaches to risk management in the United States. Between 1790 and 1920, the American fire insurance industry recast the unmanageable physical hazard of fire as a financial risk. In the Subjects--Topical Terms:

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History, United States.

Shaped by risk: The American fire insurance industry, 1790--1920.
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520 $a Fire insurers initially faced the excessive concentration of risks, which exposed them to the consequences of large-scale conflagrations. After the New York Fire of 1835, fire insurers expanded into new markets across the country to diversify th
520 $a The survivors organized a new cooperative order, based on establishing a local rate-setting board, or cartel, within each market. The boards eased the pricing problem and also the ongoing problem of monitoring agents, and helped to stabilize the
520 $a But actuarially-based rates still eluded the industry, and collective rate-setting faced consumer resistance. State regulation of rates largely resolved these problems, providing rates with both a statistical basis and a new legitimacy. By 1920,
520 $a This investigation of the history of fire insurance provides an alternative to the Chandlerian paradigm of business development, focusing on managing risk rather than improving efficiency. The risk-management paradigm may shed light on business
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