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We empirically analyze the costs and benefits of financial regulation based on a survey of 76 insurers from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Our analysis includes both established and new empirical measures for regulatory costs and benefits. This is the first paper that takes costs and benefits...
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This paper discusses the adequacy of insurance for managing cyber risk. To this end, we extract 994 cases of cyber …. These problems hinder the development of a sustainable cyber insurance market. We finish by discussing how cyber risk …
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Using state-of-the-art frontier efficiency methodologies, we study the efficiency and productivity of Swiss insurance … subsectors. Moreover, we are the first to analyze the internationalization strategies of insurance companies, a topic of high … insurance sector. We find that productivity and efficiency in the Swiss insurance market have improved for the property …
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We conduct a comprehensive asset pricing analysis for the U.S. property/liability insurance industry using monthly data … the returns of property/liability insurance stocks in a satisfactory way. We adapt the model proposed by Adrian, Friedman …, and Muir (2015) for financial institutions and define an insurance-specific five-factor asset pricing model (INS5), which …
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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...
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This dissertation consists of four essays on insurance economies. It aims to answer questions in the fields of … insurance transactions (Essays I and IV) as well as insurance operations and strategies (Essays II and III). These questions are … relevant both to the insurance academic community and to the insurance industry. The methodologies explored in the dissertation …
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This paper demonstrates the existence of adverse selection in the group insurance market with no individual choice. We … provide evidence against the “conventional wisdom” that group insurance mitigates adverse selection because of the mixture of …
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