simulation of the effect of a potential double-dip recession on solvency of Guernsey banks and insurance companies. The STs … assess the sensitivity of banks and insurance companies to single-factor shocks to risk types affecting solvency and …

Significant legislative changes and regulatory developments have taken place in the Netherland’s insurance sector …. The initial Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) and the current assessment are benchmarked against the Insurance …

-life insurance firms. Design/methodology/approach – Through a comparative case study methodology, the study assesses the state of … risk management in both life assurance companies and non-life insurance firms to determine whether they exhibit different … risk management practices of life and non-life insurance firms. Almost all the life companies have stated their risk …

This paper discusses a Detailed Assessment of the Observance of the Insurance Core Principles for Italy. The assessment … reveals that insurance supervision in Italy occurs within a legal framework that incorporates the relevant European Union …

This paper discusses the key sources of vulnerabilities for pension plans and insurance companies in light of the … institutions including insurance and pensions; and 5) the need to revisit the resolution and crisis management framework for … insurance and pensions. …

the late 1990s. The insurance sector, composed of 15 domestic insurance companies including four life insurance companies …

This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the … insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic … used for surveillance of financial soundness of insurance companies and the insurance sector as a whole. …

of Knightian uncertainty. This paper correlates non-life insurance penetration in 70 countries with income level …, financial sector depth, country risk, a measure of cost of insurance, and the World Bank governance indexes. We find that …