risk management activities such as insurance. Using a detailed firm survey conducted by the World Bank (2004), we examine … the impacts of various governance monitoring mechanisms and CEO characteristics on the corporate insurance decision … property insurance. However, the purchase of property insurance for managerial self-interest is only prevalent in firms subject …

publicly listed insurance firms. Using a dataset for 24 years, we report new results which show that ERM adopters realize …

This paper examines dependency among the line of business in the non-life insurance industry towards arriving at … insurance firms in India during the period 2001 to 2020. The important insight is the degree of dependency that remain stable …

Purpose This study investigated the impact of corporate ownership structure on agency costs in the insurance industry …. Design/methodology/approach The study sample included 23 insurance companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from … determinants of agency costs from a frontier market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on the insurance …

Purpose - This study investigated the impact of corporate ownership structure on agency costs in the insurance industry …. Design/methodology/approach The study sample included 23 insurance companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from … determinants of agency costs from a frontier market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on the insurance …

A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … after the consideration of the CEO power score in the cost efficiency, the relation between insurance efficiency and the …

A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … after the consideration of the CEO power score in the cost efficiency, the relation between insurance efficiency and the …

. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate … bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings …, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to be related to the …