RT Monograph SR 00 A1 Pflug, G.C. T1 Risk-Reshaping Contracts and Stochastic Optimization YR 1996 FD 1996-12 SP 24 AB Insurance contracts and lotteries are just the opposite sides of the same coin: These are contracts, which allow to reshape an uncertain financial position by exchanging risks between two contractors. In this paper, we discuss some basic problems of operations research which are connected with such kind of contracts. PB WP-96-142 PP IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria AV Published LK https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4886/