while the return of individual insurance companies in Nigeria is more volatile than the market return; The return of … individual insurance firms in Nigeria is more volatile than the return of individual banks in Nigeria. The security variance for … a bank is greater than the security variance for an insurance firm. Thus the total risk of a bank is greater than the …

Basel II Framework brings important changes, since life insurance and surety policy are “eligible” guarantees for … “umbrella insurance”, able to cope with both direct and indirect loss. This paper examine the strategic role of insurance …

systemic risk in the insurance sector. Using the systemic risk measure, we examine the inter-connectedness between banks and …

important in the performance of banks and insurances, analyze the influences of a number of observable factors on banking and … insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors into account …

We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also ….g. one country that opens up its banking system for competitors but not vice versa. …

crisis on banks and insurers. We examine the systemic interdependencies within and across the European banking and insurance …

until recently preformed different tasks. To this end, the present study explores the bank-insurance phenomenon in the Greek … new as one would expect. A variant of the bank-insurance approach to financial services seems to have dominated the Greek …

Financial conglomerates, combining banking, securities trading, and insurance, have become an important part of the …