Managing international risk : essays commissioned in honor of the centenary of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania / edited by Richard J. Herring

Includes Index

Introduction and overview / Richard J. Herring -- Managing risks to the international economic system / Richard N. Cooper -- Perspective : political threats to the international economic system / Robert D. Keohane -- Perspective : the crisis of exogeneity or our reduced ability to deal with risk / Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa -- Country risk : economic aspects / Jonathan Eaton and Mark Gersovitz -- Political risk : analysis, process, and purpose / Martin Shubik -- Country risk : social and cultural aspects / John Dunn -- Perspective : the risks of lending to developing countries / Helen Hughes -- Perspective : country risk, a banker's view / Rimmer de Vries -- Perspective : managing country risk for a manufacturing corporation / John Reid -- Organizational and institutional responses to international risk / Raymond Vernon -- Perspective : organizational strategies for coping with country risk / James R. Street -- Insuring against country risks : descriptive and prescriptive aspects / Howard Kunreuther and Paul Kleindorfer -- Perspective : country risk insurance, an insurer's view / James M. Wybar.