findings provide the first joint evidence that affiliated insurance companies have target leverage ratios and that ICM activity …

. This capital cost can be reduced by hedging longevity risk with longevity swaps, a form of reinsurance. We assess the costs …, rather than transferring this to the reinsurance or the capital markets. This aspect of the Solvency II capital requirements …

In crisis times, insurance companies might feel the pressure to present a performance of their investment portfolios … influences insurance firms' decisions on the allocation of credit risk bearing assets in their investment portfolio. I find …

control between the shareholders and managers of Chinese firms motivates the decision to purchase property insurance … entrenchment’. However, the score for the index does not affect the amount of insurance coverage purchased. Moreover, agency costs … do not appear to impact on the insurance decisions of Chinese firms suggesting that the corporate governance …

insurance companies) on the leverage of the firm using a novel data set. Our main finding is that the supply uncertainty of the … investors holding the firm's bonds, or (iii) the prevalence of mutual funds among the firm's bondholders as opposed to insurance …

can also be offered by hedge funds. In principle, traditional reinsurance contracts are still preferred as a measure of … retrocession reinsurance market. There has been no comprehensive analysis of these instruments in academic literature to date …

federal crop insurance program. Governed by the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA), private crop insurance companies must … reinsurance. This information and framework may also be useful for crop insurance firms in China when considering crop reinsurance … focused on agricultural insurance decisions by firms, the concept could be applied to general reinsurance decisions. …