the insurance company in making decisions on product, investment and reinsurance mix. The model is based on portfolio … theory and recognizes the stochastic nature of and the interaction between the underwriting and investment income of the … insurance business. In the context of an empirical application we illustrate howa portfolio optimisation approach can be used …

In recent years the insurance industry has been subject to a deeply structural change. The deregulation of markets in … Europe and the globalization of insurance markets let to an intense competition with shrinking gross revenue and benefits …. This change led to changes in the management of assets and liabilities of insurance companies. This new era of risk …

correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage …. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively correlated risks. It can be shown that insurance contributes to a reduction of … insurance. Analyzing deviations from trend in aggregate insurance payments, one finds the following for the United States and …

) shows that this constraint might well bind: insured could get higher expected utility if insurance contracts would allow … optimal insurance contract he derives underestimates the relevance of the non-negativity constraint on indemnities. This paper …

Under certain conditions the optimal insurance policy will offer full coverage above a deductible, as Arrow and others … have shown long time ago. Interestingly, the same design of insurance policies applies in case of a single loss and ex …-ante moral hazard. However, many insurance policies provide coverage against a variety of losses and the possibilities for the …

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 …

We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamiccontract has insurance companies offeringcontracts where the terms of the contract … on individualpast performance (like in car insurances). Weinvestigate whether allowing insurance companies to offer …