Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus vier Teilen, die sich mit den Themen Alternative Investments, Katastrophenrisiko und Asset Pricing im Versicherungskontext auseinandersetzen. Mithilfe verschiedener Finanzinstrumente (Aktien, Fonds und Optionen) wird die Bilanz eines...

The purpose of this article is to structure the extant knowledge on the determinants of microinsurance demand and to discuss unresolved questions that deserve future research. To achieve this outcome, we review the academic literature on microinsurance demand published between 2000 and early...

In this paper, we investigate the German stock market with regard to negative stubvalues or parent company puzzles. These are situations where a firms marketvalue is less than the value of its ownership stake in a publicly traded subsidiary.According to MITCHELL/PULVINO/STAFFORD (2002), negative...

Paper I, "The Liability Regime of Insurance Pools and Its Impact on Pricing", addresses the pricing of insurance premiums for specific forms of risk sharing in the insurance industry. The implicit diversification effect from this risk sharing on the default risk is discussed in connection with a...