The paper analyzes the scope for the private market for pandemic insurance and discusses the potential role of the financial market and the government. Building on a premise that pandemics are classified as catastrophic risks by the insurance industry, we start by providing a framework that...

Pursuant to art. 45 of the Solvency II Framework Directive, all insurance undertakings will be obliged to conduct an "Own Risk and Solvency Assessment" (ORSA). ORSA's relevance is not limited only to the second pillar of Solvency II, where mainly qualitative requirements are to be found. ORSA...

This paper empirically studies the impact of consumer reaction to default risk on an insurer's optimal solvency level. Using experimentally obtained data, we derive a price-default risk-demand-curve that serves as an input variable for the insurer's risk strategy. We show that an insurer should...

This paper investigates the question of how risk management should be embedded in a firm's hierarchy. We take an innovative approach to this question by combining the well-known capital asset pricing framework with game-theoretic thinking. We discover the conditions under which risk information...

This article investigates the question of how risk management should be embedded in a financial firm's hierarchy. We answer this question by combining capital market theory with game-theoretic thinking. We develop a theory for the integration of risk management into an organization, based on...