Natural catastrophes often have catastrophic risks on insurance companies as well as on the insured. Using a very large … dataset on homeowners%u2019 insurance coverage by state, by firm, and by year for the 1984 to 2004 period, this paper … term %u201Cblockbuster catastrophes.%u201D Insurers adapt to these catastrophic risks by raising insurance rates, leading …

Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear … some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such … insurance company in effect serves as a retailer to homeowners of short positions in real estate futures markets or of put …

Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high risk. We show how to separately identify risk … preferences and risk types using only choices from menus of insurance plans. Our revealed preference approach does not rely on … in insurance plans, offered separately to random cross-sections or offered as part of the same menu to one cross …

State guaranty funds are quasi-governmental agencies that provide insurance to policyholders against the risk of … insurance company failure. But insurance provided by guaranty funds, like all insurance, creates moral hazard problems … insurance companies to borrow money (i.e., from policyholders). Moreover, the existence of guaranty fund insurance enables …

form of monitored liquidity insurance. Bank monitoring and resulting credit line revocations help control illiquidity … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the …

insurance industry to reevaluate the role that it can play in dealing with future natural disasters in the United States. As … which a disaster insurance program should be based. Section 3 then focuses on the second question by analyzing the …. Section 4 turns to the third question and delineates the opportunities and challenges of a comprehensive disaster insurance …

distributed through the insurance and reinsurance systems. However, because insurance companies tend to share relatively small … amounts of their cat exposures and because insurance companies' capital is threatened by large event, these risks are now …

primarily by insurance companies. Surprisingly, insurers use reinsurance to cover only a small fraction of these exposures, yet …

This paper examines the optimal design of insurance and reinsurance policies. We first consider reinsurance for … threaten the solvency of re- insurance such as a major earthquake, while others derive from common risks-changes in conditions …. Premium risk emerges as an important part of risk, which reinsurance and primary insurance markets do not adequately diversify.quot …