The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in …

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 …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

, with a specific view of the business of insurance and reinsurance companies, who are responding to the widening of the … improving the insurance coverage related to pandemics by establishing (re)insurance schemes and pooling arrangements for other …, many expect insurers to reimburse some of these costs and losses. Insurance companies are also significant investors in …