study aims to empirically investigate the input efficiency of banking and insurance sectors with further probe into Islamic … and insurance firms in our sample using the non-parametric frontier method, data envelopment analysis (DEA). The findings … period of study and has also remained well above their conventional counterparts. The study also revealed that, insurance …

and scope. We use detailed survey data of German property-liability insurance companies that allows us to construct …

proxy of individual risk in the banking sector, may be a useful tool when applied in the insurance sector. However …-score approaches to examine which one best fits insurance companies. The authors use a final dataset of 183 firms (1,382 observations …) operating in the Spanish insurance sector during the period 2010-2017. Design/methodology/approach - In the first stage, the …

are growing rapidly in Muslim-dominated countries where insurance density and insurance penetration are low …

For insurance firms, underwriting and investment strategies are defined as the dollar weights allocated to underwriting … activities (direct premium, net reinsurance, etc.) and the investment of assets respectively. Using a sample of 83 Canadian … property-liability insurance companies for 1996 to 2010, we first examine the impact of underwriting and investment strategies …

We analyze an initiative by insurance regulators to reform capital regulations for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) by …

,382 observations) operating in the Spanish insurance sector during the period 2010-2017. This measure of risk has widely been used in … the banking literature, and it has recently been applied to the insurance sector as an indicator of financial soundness …

work. Recently, more emphasis has also been placed on the role of insurance for financial stability analysis. This paper … reviews the current state of system-wide solvency stress tests for insurance based on a comparative review of national … consistent implementation of such exercises. The paper also offers recommendations on improving the current insurance stress …