This paper identifies the risk and risk-adjusted return determinants of US insurers. We find that the significant firm-specific determinants for risk and risk-adjusted return vary slightly for the risk proxy and risk-adjusted return proxy used, and the types of insurers. We find that in general,...

This article examines the determinants of cyber insurance participation, the amount of coverage offered, and the performance of current cyber insurers. Our results support the competitive advantage hypothesis, are in line with the coordinated risk management hypothesis, but only partially...

While the traditional role of insurers is to provide protection against idiosyncratic risks of individuals, insurers themselves face substantial uncertainties due to aggregate shocks. To prevent insurers from passing through aggregate risks to consumers, governments have increasingly adopted...

This paper discusses the development of drone insurance and its market. Specifically, we examine drone regulations and management of the risk arising from drone ownership and operations for commercial purposes, followed by our recommendation for coverages in insurance markets

This research examines the effects of rate regulations and compulsory insurance laws on insurance purchases. Three stage least squares (3sls) regressions have been employed to control for the endogeneity of the main variables, which are premiums, regulations, and insurance purchases. The...

Cummins, Doherty, and Lo (2002) present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the capacity of the property liability insurance industry in the U.S. to finance catastrophic losses. In their theoretical analysis, they show that a sufficient condition for capacity maximization is for all insurers...

We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates standard risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting. Our estimates indicate that nonlinear...

An analysis of the effects of natural hazards on society does not solely depend on a region's topographic or climatic exposure to natural processes, but the region's institutional resilience to natural processes that ultimately determines whether natural processes result in a natural hazard or...