The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm’s risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold...

The purpose of the paper is to provide some support to the thesis that insurance may reduce the cost of capital in a company by influencing both the cost of capital components and the need for rising capital. The problem is here perceived from two perspectives the classical concept related to...

The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm's risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold to...

We present novel empirical evidence on the contractually mandated purchase of insurance by corporate creditors. In a large sample of private credit agreements of publicly-traded firms, we find that nearly all agreements contain at least a boilerplate provision requiring the borrower to purchase...

COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster assistance programs are developed after the pandemic has already started. There is now an opportunity to design and implement effective and efficient solutions to manage the...

We analyze how pandemic business interruption coverage can be put in place by building on capitalization mechanisms. The pandemic risk cannot be mutualized since it affects simultaneously a large number of businesses, and furthermore, it has a systemic nature because it goes along with a severe...

In Unternehmen hat sich der Einsatz von rechenintensiver Informationstechnologie (IT) bereits für den Geschäftsbetrieb als unverzichtbar erwiesen, um Geschäftsprozesse besser auszurichten und neue Geschäftslösungen mit größerer Flexibilität und Geschwindigkeit bereitzustellen. Dieser...