Financial crisis has shown significant gaps in risk management system in financial institutions. The major critics focused on an inappropriate usage of the innovative financial products with not adequate reflection of capital requirements for their market risks, not adequate valuations of those...

Aimed at protection of the market and consumers, the control of solvency is very important for insurer's business activities. Regarding the fact that insurer's insolvency causes a chain of problems, the state regulation is needed that forces insurers to keep their solvency at the necessary...

Modern regulatory capital standards, such as the Solvency II standard formula, employ a correlation based approach for risk aggregation. The so-called "square-root formula" uses correlation parameters between, for example, market risk, non-life insurance risk and default risk to determine the...

Most insurers in the European Union determine their regulatory capital requirements based on the standard formula of Solvency II. However, there is evidence that the standard formula inaccurately reflects insurers’ risk situation and may provide misleading steering incentives. In the second...

European legislation for the prudential regulation of insurance and reinsurance sector has existed since the 1970s, gradually materialized in Directive 92/49/EEC and Directive 2002/83/EC, both known as Solvency I. Due to economic and political development the regime become insufficient and...

The study focuses on the analysis of the character, used by the ECB, Quantitative Easing policy. However, its direct aim is the assessment of effects of this policy. The consequences of the ECB’s Quantitative Easing policy are analyzed pointing to the changes in the liquidity of the euro area...

Insurance companies have to estimate reserves and provisions to cover the payment of either unreported claims or unsettled claims. In this paper, we apply the Chain-Ladder method to obtain a point estimate of reserves, and then we use the bootstrap technique to estimate the margin of error and...

This paper studies the optimal dividend strategies of an insurance company when the manager has time-inconsistent preferences. We consider the problem for a naive manager and a sophisticated manager, and analytically derive the optimal dividend strategies when claim sizes follow an exponential...

The concept of bancassurance has French origin but can be seen in German as Allfinanz and in English as Financial Services. The emergence of bancassurance concept can not be primarily attributed to any banks or insurance institutions. Approaching the two sectors was due to mutations occurring in...

The management of an insurance company is based on a whole series of actions, whose finality can be found in obtaining and keeping a balance among the functions of the management, so as to ensure the success of the company on the market: the forecast function (substantiated in forecasts, plans...