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Compendium of Publications - The Geneva Association

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<strong>The</strong> Insurance industry and climate change—Contribution to the global debate,<br />

by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Geneva</strong> <strong>Association</strong>, <strong>Geneva</strong> Report No. 2, July 2009.<br />

Climate change brings new risks but also new opportunities for the insurance sector. <strong>The</strong> report<br />

shows that climate change is about more than just extreme weather events. It analyses what insurance<br />

companies are already doing, what they could do in the future and where they need the cooperation <strong>of</strong><br />

governements and other partners to succeed.<br />

Regulation and intervention in the insurance industry fundamental issues,<br />

by E. Baltensperger, P. Buomberger, A.A. Iuppa, B. Keller and<br />

A. Wicki, <strong>Geneva</strong> Report No. 1, February 2008.<br />

Financial markets belong to the strongly supervised and regulated sectors <strong>of</strong> most modern economies.<br />

This applies to both banking and insurance. Traditional motives and justifications for regulation in these<br />

two industries overlap to some extent, but differ also in many ways.<br />

While a very substantial body <strong>of</strong> literature concerned with the regulation <strong>of</strong> banking has developed over<br />

recent years, dealing with both its fundamental motivation and specific forms and applications <strong>of</strong> such<br />

regulation, a similar intellectual effort concerned with insurance regulation is lacking to a considerable<br />

extent. It is the aim <strong>of</strong> this report to work towards closing this gap.<br />

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