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We investigate the effect of line-of-business diversification on asset risk-taking in the U.S. property-liability industry. The coordinated risk management hypothesis (Schrand and Unal, 1998) implies a negative relation between underwriting risk and investment risk. Consistent with this...
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Modern regulatory capital standards, such as the Solvency II standard formula, employ a correlation based approach for … risk aggregation. The so-called "square-root formula" uses correlation parameters between, for example, market risk, non …
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in EM; (2) LPPs with a higher ratio of industry are less likely to use accrual EM and real EM approaches based on … property transactions; and (3) LPPs with a hospital focus prefer accrual EM, while LPPs with a retail focus prefer long …-term accrual EM and sales manipulation …
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to the mitigation of loss by a balance of opposing forces when bonds are reinvested. Their downside is resilient to … increasing correlation. This system is the kernel of a system for all assets but first focus is exclusively on bonds for their …
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limate variability and extremes, socio-economic conditions, crisis and market shocks are among the main factors determining risk in the agricultural sector. Drought, heat stress, flood, market volatility among the others, have caused heavy losses in the recent past and both the occurrence and...
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We examine the information content of high accruals momentum defined as a string of high discretionary accruals for four consecutive years. We find that firms that consistently report high levels of discretionary accruals experience low subsequent returns. The results are robust after we control...
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In addition to premiums, investment income is one of the two main sources of capital for property-casualty (P/C) insurance companies. This study investigates short-term equity trading behavior of P/C insurers in the United States in 2007 and 2008, and finds that over 27 percent of non-group...
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the case of large, overlapping credit portfolios. We analytically calculate the multivariate joint loss distribution of … to protect the more senior tranches from high losses. We analytically corroborate the observation that an extreme loss of … the subordinated creditor is likely to also yield a large loss of the senior creditor …
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