Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Cerrato, Mario; Zhang, Xuan - 2016
This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …