Investors and insurance policyholders are often confronted with complex products and providers' opaque organisational … insurance regulation. …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We interpret this function as insurance and test the option to insure … donations in the lab. Our participants indeed have a positive willingness to pay for insurance against either risk. Yet the … insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …

risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

stakeholders to the marketplace. Unlike its insurance peers, RSA is one of the few insurers that operates a portfolio of brands …

The aim of this paper is to measure the efficiency of insurance companies in Saudi Arabia using data envelopment … approaches of this technique and considering a sample of 23 insurance companies, we show that the results revealed that insurance … companies do not operate efficiently. Also, a classification of companies allows to discover that on average, Takaful insurance …