This paper explores the economic issues related to systemically important insurance companies, using an example from … the Great Depression, the National Surety Company. National Surety was a large and diverse insurance company that … policyholders staged a massive run on the company, demanding the return of their unearned premiums. The New York State Insurance …

portfolio entering the crisis. Using detailed, position- and transaction-level data from the U.S. insurance industry, we show … implementation of these rules within each insurance type across U.S. states. Rather than promoting a shift away from market …

hedge funds, banks, brokers, and insurance companies based on principal components analysis and Granger-causality tests. We … the finance and insurance industries. These measures can also identify and quantify financial crisis periods, and seem to …, banks, insurance companies, and brokers …