El propósito principal de los sistemas de tarificación Bonus-Malus es que los asegurados paguen una prima justa, esto es la prima que corresponda a su propia experiencia de reclamación. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos sistemas penalizan injustamente a determinados asegurados, haciéndoles...

In recent years, one of the factors that had a significant impact on the economic development was represented by climatic change. At international level, the weather risk management stands for a priority for Governments, insurance companies and companies within the industries affected by the...

Insurance Industry is going through a very important stage of its transformation - the transition from the classical system of management into a risk-based management. These changes were launched in Europe by international organizations which deal with the development of the necessary...

This paper examines the ways insurance companies modified their investment policies during the interwar years, arguing that this period marked the start of the transition from 'traditional' to 'modern' investment practice.

We compare trading costs in the transparent U.S. Treasury bond market with the less transparent U.S. corporate and municipal bond markets, based on newly available transaction data. We estimate that the mean bid-ask spread per $100 par value is 23 cents for municipal bonds, 21 cents for...

Over the last twenty years, the consensus view of systemic risk in the financial system that emerged in response to the banking crises of the 1930s and before has lost much of its relevance. This view held that the main systemic problem is runs on solvent banks leading to bank panics. But...

Previous studies, investigating how the market in general viewed the impact of a big earthquake (e.g. the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area) on insurance firm values, found a positive reaction of insurers' stock prices. This "gaining from loss" may be caused by the...

We discuss how to detect the informational content of household decisions among the explanatory variables of econometric models. Some applications to the choice of automobile insurance contracts and to the demand for life insurance are provided. We show that the information provided by...