Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 856-868) and index.

Real and financial capital -- Risk and risk management -- Leverage -- Adverse selection and corporate financing decisions -- Capital budgeting, project selection, and performance evaluation -- Risk transfer -- Risk finance -- Insurance -- Reinsurance -- Credit insurance and financial guaranties -- Derivatives -- Credit derivatives and credit-linked notes -- Structured finance -- The sructuring process -- Hybrids, convertibles, and structured notes -- Contingent capital -- Securitization -- Cash collateralized debt obligations -- Structured synthetic hybrids -- Securitizing private equity and hedge funds -- Project and principal finance -- Risk securitizations and insurance-linked notes -- Captives, protected cells, and mutuals -- Finite risk -- Multiline and multitrigger insurance structures -- Contingent cover -- The emerging role of patent law in risk finance / J. B. Heaton -- Critical distinctions between weather derivatives and insurance / Andrea S. Kramer -- Is insurance a substitute for capital under the revised basel accord? / Barbara T. Kavanagh -- Is my SPE a VIE under FIN46R, and, if so, so what? / J. Paul Forrester and Benjamin S. Neuhausen -- Credit derivatives, insurance, and CDOs : the aftermath of Enron / Alton B. Harris and Andrea S. Kramer -- Project finance collateralized debt obligations : what? why? now? / J. Paul Forrester -- 2004 review of trends in insurance securitization : exploring outside the cat box / Morton N. Lane and Roger Beckwith -- Enterprise risk management : the case of United Grain Growers / Scott E. Harrington, Greg Niehaus, and Kenneth J. Risko -- Representations and warranties insurance and other insurance products designed to facilitate corporate transactions / Theodore A. Boundas and Teri Lee Ferro.