The purpose of this paper is both to report on a new methodology in the field of automatic classification, and to discuss the need of these many techniques which are referred to as factor analysis.

By examining the distribution of the total net premiums written by the 100 largest reinsurance companies in the world, this paper documents two dimensions of the change in market concentration: the trend in concentration in the world's largest companies, and the relative position of these...

Purpose: In a highly competitive market, the price of wine is a variable controlled by suppliers to suggest a level of quality. An index of relative firm position in the market based on relative prices is calculated for a sample of wine producers. The purpose of the paper is to analyze some of...

The purpose of this paper is to review and summarise the papers published in The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review in 2011. Asymmetric information and the performance of insurance markets are important issues that are regularly discussed in the review, but this volume also illustrates...

The Geneva Association and European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, through publications like The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, serve as a catalyst for progress in the understanding of risk and insurance matters. The purpose of this paper is to review and summarise some of the papers...