This paper aims at presenting the insurance cost-of-capital com- putation issue. It highlights two methodologies … premium adopted by supervisory authorities. These strategies are based either on market return of insurance companies or on … the modelling of insurance business profit and loss. We estimate a cost-of-capital rate corre- sponding to these basic …

This paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the decision to provide or buy insurance against the risk of … natural catastrophes. In contrast to conventional models of insurance, the insurer has a non-zero probability of insolvency …. Our model shows that government-provided insurance will be more attractive in terms of expected utility, as it allows …

This paper analyzes the efficient design of insurance schemes in the presence of aggregate shocks and moral hazard. The … identical but are subject to idiosyncratic shocks. Without moral hazard, optimality requires (1) full insurance against … conflicts with the full insurance of idiosyncratic shocks. In particular, how is the sharing of macro-economic risks across …

model to highlight how liquidity and insurance constraints respond differently to the time profile of expected cash …

This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … religious unemployed are less likely to be actively looking for work). In panel data, as implied by insurance, the religious … have less variation in life satisfaction. Last, we suggest that religion's insurance role might be reflected in support for …

We study an economy where intermediaries compete over contracts in a nonexclusive insurance market affected by moral …

computation of the (possibly non-continuous) density functions of infima of reserve processes commonly used in insurance. In …

In the U.S., flood insurance is provided essentially through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a public …. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the largest flood insurance sample ever studied by focusing on the state of … Florida, which accounts for 40 percent of the entire NFIP portfolio. We study the demand for flood insurance with a database …