Purpose This study investigated the impact of corporate ownership structure on agency costs in the insurance industry …. Design/methodology/approach The study sample included 23 insurance companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from … determinants of agency costs from a frontier market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on the insurance …

risk management activities such as insurance. Using a detailed firm survey conducted by the World Bank (2004), we examine … the impacts of various governance monitoring mechanisms and CEO characteristics on the corporate insurance decision … property insurance. However, the purchase of property insurance for managerial self-interest is only prevalent in firms subject …

or during the previous recession. However, no life insurer in the sample belonging to a life insurance holding company … contrast, life insurance entities with poor and deteriorating performance but with no access to TARP funds received a smaller …

We find that common equity firms pay lower D&O insurance premiums than income trusts, an alternative and riskier …

This study investigates how directors' and officers' liability insurance (hereafter D&O insurance) affects corporate …&O liability insurance is positively associated with corporate diversification, particularly unrelated diversification. In addition …, we find that when diversification does occur, excessive D&O liability insurance worsens the shareholder value destroyed a …

investors, the long term and dominant insurance companies in the corporate bond market are the most sensible in assessing the …

We find that common equity firms pay lower D&O insurance premiums than income trusts, an alternative and riskier …