two of New York City's fifteen banks. Life and Fire Insurance became the largest of the bankruptcies. In violation of New … insurance industry. These lending practices, based on an instrument known as a post note, were initially sound, but were later …

-affiliated U.S. property-casualty insurance companies from 1994. While it is generally assumed that affiliate support enhances the …

As a result of Solvency II, academics and practitioners anticipate further consolidation in the insurance industry as … generally aims to enhance the soundness of the insurance sector and its firms, policymakers should be aware of this merger … risk reducing. Consolidation can thus have a stabilizing effect on the insurance sector during market turmoil. Finally, the …

The previous performance evaluation studies towards non-life insurance companies emphasized on the comparative … evaluation among public and private sector companies. Early detection and diagnosis of bankruptcy of insurance companies is much … variables and determine how they contribute to bankruptcy risk prediction, based on which the non-life insurance companies are …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

reorganization is an important source of labor insurance against bankruptcy shocks, including for workers who eventually move to …. Finally, we show that reorganization provides labor insurance to workers who move to new employers. Reorganization reduces the …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

insurance portfolio, the proportion of structured finance in their investment portfolio, selling credit default swaps, and …

We estimate a probit model of insolvency risk, using a dataset of about 400 Dutch insurance companies during the period …

are growing rapidly in Muslim-dominated countries where insurance density and insurance penetration are low …