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Reinsurance is a transaction insurance firms use to hedge risk. Existing studies have only investigated the demand for … reinsurance. Thus, we do not have direct evidence on whether the use of reinsurance creates value. Our study provides this … evidence. We find a positive relation between the use of reinsurance and value. This relation is nuanced. Our results suggest …
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business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of …
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When firms approach distress, whether they engage in asset substitution (risk shifting) or rebuild equity (risk management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it ideal for testing this hypothesis: (1) the main losses...
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Risk transfer is a key risk and capital management tool for insurance companies. Transferring risk between insurers is used to mitigate risk and manage capital re- quirements. We investigate risk transfer in the context of a network environment of insurers and consider capital costs and capital...
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business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of …
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We investigate the impact of counterparty risk on contract design in the reinsurance market. We study a multiplicative …
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Since 2008, catastrophic losses and financial turmoil have deeply shaken the insurance and reinsurance industries … players, and have increased attention on the subject of reinsurance counterparty risk. This corresponds to the exposure of an … considered as largely auto-regulated by the insurance market. The impact of reinsurance credit on an insurers' balance sheet …
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Political Risk Insurance (and Reinsurance) market continues to grow rapidly. However, when looking at the available scientific … Insurance and Reinsurance - which can be easily implemented in standard IT tools …
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Reinsurance is a versatile risk management strategy commonly employed by insurers to optimize their risk profile. In … this paper, we study an optimal reinsurance design problem minimizing a general law-invariant coherent risk measure of the … reinsurance premium principle and a premium budget constraint. Due to its intrinsic generality, this contract design problem …
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This Long Finance research project sought to explore how cyber-catastrophe reinsurance might help mitigate cyber …-risk, establish some evidence of the appetite for such reinsurance, and examine how government might best provide support for the … Prosperity: Public-Private Cyber-Catastrophe Reinsurance" was released in July 2015 (press release).Co-sponsored by APM Group …
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