The determinants of insurance consumption have been extensively studied, yet spatial correlations are rarely considered within this framework. In this paper, we discuss several channels through which spatial dependence may arise and then test for spatial dependence using six years (2009-2014) of...

In this article, we establish a model of competitive insurance markets based on Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) where insurers can perform risk classification tests either before insurance contracts are issued (underwriting) or when coverage claims are filed (post-loss test). However, insurers...

This paper studies the effects of company risk and guaranty funds on life insurance in force using company-by-state level data during the 1985-2010 period. Our primary objective is to use the variation in the timing of guaranty fund adoptions across states to identify the impact of public...

We examine whether a male CEO's facial masculinity, measured by facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), predicts the riskiness of his firm. Using the face pictures of 1,162 CEOs in the Execucomp database, we find supporting evidence. Firms with more masculine-faced CEOs have higher stock return...

We study the association between banking crises and non-life insurance consumption using cross-country panel of data from 139 countries from 1988 to 2010. We find a persistent and excess decline in non-life insurance consumption after a banking crisis in the higher income countries. We explore...

Appointed actuaries are responsible for estimating the largest liability on property-casualty insurance companies' balance sheet. Actuarial independence is crucial in safeguarding accurate estimates, where this independence is self-regulated by actuarial professional institutions. However,...

We advance the literature starting from the work by Dixit (2000), who considers the effect of the principle of good faith on adverse selection. Introducing a post-loss risk misrepresentation testing in a competitive insurance market model, we identify a sufficient condition to guarantee that a...

We apply Moulin's notion of egalitarian equivalent cost sharing of a public good to the problem of insurance capitalization and capital allocation where the liability portfolio is fixed. We show that this approach yields overall capitalization and cost allocations that are Pareto efficient,...

We examine which firms are targets of cyberattacks and how they are affected. We find that cyberattacks cause firms to reassess the risks that they are exposed to and their consequences, so that they have real effects on firm policies even when targets are not financially constrained....

This article studies the effects of direct and indirect loss experience of extreme catastropheson expectations concerning the likelihood of future events by investigating the earthquakeinsurance take-up of Japanese households after the two costliest disasters in history. Directloss experiences...