risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …

case of the Italian earthquake insurance. In this sense, we examine in detail the vulnerability definition and its … relevance for citizens and for insurance companies. Then we investigate the Italian insurance market characterized by a very low … penetration of natural disasters insurance and the potential effects of a recent Government initiative called “Sisma Bonus”. The …

In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … our model. Banks increased lending to the agricultural sector in counties with higher insurance coverage after 1980, even …

transactions of non-agency RMBS by insurance companies from 2006 to 2009, we show that insurance companies that became more capital … at much lower prices than other insurance companies during the crisis …

This paper investigates systemic risk in the insurance industry. We first analyze the systemic contribution of the … insurance industry vis-à-vis other industries by applying 3 measures, namely the linear Granger causality test, conditional … Europe over the last 14 years. We then analyze the determinants of the systemic risk contribution within the insurance …

insurers to keep their solvency at the necessary level. Insurance companies in the European Union work on the implementation of … better connection of capital and risk profile, increased transparency, and higher flexibility of insurance companies … analysis of the current condition of the insurance market in BiH was made. By using the primary research and applying the …

Global financial regulators are currently reflecting on the nature of the insurance business. Specifically, they are … trying to classify insurance into "traditional" and "non-traditional" activities, and to distinguish them from "non-insurance … international finance is "what is insurance and where does insurance end?" This paper aims to elaborate on the economics of …

welfare by implementing appropriate tax and subsidy schemes that make insurance more affordable and also lower insurers …