The paper examines the structural and organisational problems of social insurancesystems in Brazil and the Argentine in order to illuminate current debates about pension‘reform’. Much of the present discussion depicts social insurance ‘crisis’ as a modernphenomenon. Similarly,...

This paper examines the decline of National Insurance in Britain, as witnessedby its declining share of all social security spending and the steady dilution ofthe “contributory principle” on which it was originally based. It argues that thisdecline is not an accident: under governments of...

In this paper, we estimate the demand for homeowner insurance in Florida. Since we are interested in a number of factors influencing demand, we approach the problem from two directions. We first estimate two hedonic equations representing the premium per contract and the price mark-up. We...

Vorgestellt wird eine empirische Studie, welche den Zusammenhang zwischen Rendite und Risiko für ein Sample deutscher Versicherungsaktien im Zeitraum 1975-1998 untersucht. Als Methode wurde ein Multifaktorenmodell mit makroökonomischen Faktoren verwendet. Je nach Untersuchungszeitraum beläuft...

Our article integrates the manager’s care in the literature on auditor’s liability. With unobservable efforts, we face a double moral hazard setting. It is well-known that efficient liability rules without punitive damages do not exist under these circumstances. However, we show that the...

Die Gegenfinanzierung für die im Steuerentlastungsgesetz vorgesehenen Steuertarifsenkungen erfolgt durch die Verbreiterung der steuerlichen Bemessunngsgrundlage. Dabei dienen die Versicherungsunternehmen neben den Energieversorgern als die Hauptfinanziers dieser Steuerreform. Die...

Strict liability is widely seen as the most suitable way to govern highly risky activities, such as environmentally dangerous production or genetic engineering. The reason which is usually given for applying strict liability to these areas, is that not only efficient care is supposed to be...

The paper deals with the so called external moral hazard. This problem occurs, when-everinsurance companies bear the repair costs of the insured in the case of a damage. The insurancecoverage results in a decrease of the price elasticity of demand and therefore in higher prices for...

Am Vorabend des neuen Jahrhunderts zeichnen sich für die deutschen Versicherungsunternehmen gravierende Herausforderungen ab, die ihr Marketing und ihren Vertrieb in den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten erheblich beeinflussen werden.