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 …

European legislation for the prudential regulation of insurance and reinsurance sector has existed since the 1970s … represents a crucial modernization of European insurance regulation. Each of these regimes prescribes its own rules for the …

Global diversification of financial institutions, including the insurance sector, has proven beneficial to many … distribution channels. This paper aims to critically evaluate the liberalisation process of India's insurance sector and the impact … it has had on the sector, both life and non-life segments. As India is in the process of opening its insurance sector to …

theoretical background for the regulation of financial institutions, especially insurance and banking companies, and, finally …

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 …

Mutual insurance companies and stock insurance companies are different forms of organized risk sharing: policyholders … necessary for a stock insurer to offer insurance at a fair premium, but not for a mutual. In the presence of an ownermanager …

In our article we consider insurance as a means of allocating terrorism risk. Terrorism poses a significant challenge … result of the uncertainty surrounding these risks private markets face significant difficulties in providing insurance for it …. In the insurance industry costly risk bearing can explain the supply of capacity risks. Corporate risk management theory …