This morning, I would like to give a few practical commentson capital adequacy from an insurance companyperspective. In doing so, I will present two views on capitaladequacy and capital allocation in the insurance industry.The first view is the regulatory perspective, that is, themotivations...

Die neuen Vorschriften zur Eigenmittelausstattung von Versicherungsunternehmen– besser bekannt unter dem Terminus Solvency II – werdendie grundlegenden Prinzipien des versicherungswirtschaftlichen Geschäftsmodellsin derart starkem Maße verändern, dass sich die Versicherungswirtschaftim...

Das Thema Kundenzufriedenheit nimmt bei Unternehmen eine immer wichtigere Rolle ein. Die Autorin konzentriert sich auf die Versicherungsbranche und misst den Einfluss der Dienstleistungsqualität auf die Kundenzufriedenheit. Zur Messung von Servicequalität wird SERVQUAL, ein von der...

We study the possibility for international diversification of catastrophe risk by the insurance sector. Adopting the argument that large insurance losses may be a `globalizing factor' for the industry, we study the dependence of geographically distant insurance markets via equity returns. In...

We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...

We first study growth and risk sharing in a stochastic growth model with preference shocks and two risk-averse agents. In periods in which one of the agents needs extra consumption (insurance), it is socially optimal to reduce the consumption of the other agent (redistribution) and also to...

The growing need for diversification in Italian banks can easily look to the insurance market, which has interesting opportunities from both the point of view of size and growth rate, and also from the point of view of the multiple nature and various kinds of relations that are being set up,...

This paper provides evidence on the determinants of the diversification status as well as the extent of diversification for Spanish non-life insurers in the period 2000-2007. Operating efficiency, risk pooling, internal capital markets, conflict of interests and external markets control are the...