Among the trends impacting most industries are new mobility concepts, digitalization, urbanization, rising environmental awareness, and demographic change. The automobile insurance industry, in particular, is strongly affected by new mobility concepts, including autonomous, shared, and electric...

In this paper, we first construct a cyber risk consciousness score using a text mining algorithm, applied to annual reports of large‐ and mid‐cap US banks and insurers from 2011 to 2018. We next categorize the firms' cyber risk management based on keywords to study determinants and...

This study examines spillover effects following Volkswagen's admission of emissions cheating. We first estimate initial operational losses of 8.45% of Volkswagen's equity market capitalization on the date before the announcement, reputational losses up to five times these losses, and significant...

In this paper, we study the awareness of European and U.S. insurance companies of climate-related risks and opportunities using a respective indicator from the Refinitiv Eikon database that uses reporting data. Based on this, we examine the determinants and value of the awareness of business...

Nach den Terrorattacken vom 11. September sehen sich die privaten Erst- und Rückversicherer mit einer völlig veränderten Risikolage konfrontiert, die sie bisher bei ihren Kalkulationen außer Acht ließen. Dr. Michael Wolgast, Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft, schlägt...

This paper analyzes the scope of the private market for pandemic insurance. We develop a framework that explains theoretically how the equilibrium price of pandemic insurance depends on accumulation risk, covariance between pandemic claims and other claims, and covariance between pandemic claims...

Wo investieren Distressed-Securities-Hedgefonds? Ein Asset-based Style-Faktorenmodell In dieser Arbeit werden die systematischen Risiken von Distressed-Securities-Hedgefonds untersucht. Es finden sich vier Faktoren, die das systematische Risiko dieser Strategiegruppe weitgehend erklären: Das...

Eine zentrale Fragestellung in der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung auf dem Gebiet Hedgefonds stellt deren Performancemessung dar. Ausgangspunkt unserer Untersuchung bildet die in der Literatur verbreitete Meinung, dass Hedgefonds aufgrund ungewöhnlicher Ausprägungen der höheren...