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European insurance companies. The extent of risk taking is quantified through variations in stock prices and these are … insurance companies for the period 1997 to 2010. We find that differences in company size, capital structure, liquidity, and …, compensation, and board independence. We also document increases in the volatility of insurance stock returns during the financial …
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This paper analyses the performance of the international insurance industry during the financial crisis and examines … the importance of insurance to systemic financial market stability, emphasizing the need for correct assessment of the … characteristics of insurance companies, such as their relative immunity to runs, their extremely low level of short-term financial …
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A macro-prudential policy maker can manage risks to financial stability only if currentand future risks can be reliably assessed. We propose a novel framework to assessfinancial system risk. Using a dynamic factor framework based on state-space methods, we model latent macro-financial and credit...
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After the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 the level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the economy has generally increased. However, while in some countries this has been a transitory phenomenon, in others it still represents a major threat for economic recovery and financial...
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