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,...

Using cross-state panel auto insurance premium data from 2007 to 2012 in the U.S., this study provides evidence that individual purchases of private auto insurance were excessively reduced during and after the U.S. subprime mortgage. Analyses show that the credit crunch triggered by a shock in...

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...

Reputational risk has become a critical concern for most organizations. Insurers, who rely on trust to generate business, are particularly vulnerable. Maintaining a positive reputation, however, is costly, leading to the potential for moral hazard in the form of choosing a lowercost strategy...

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 paper studies the impact of lenders’ sensitivity to company risk on the extent of market discipline in life insurance during the 1985-2010 period. We find strong market discipline for young insurers but not for older insurers, supporting the strong influence of lenders’ trust attached...

We develop a model where a firm has an optimal exposure to cyber risk. With rational, fully informed agents and with no hysteresis, a successful cyberattack should have no impact on a financially unconstrained target's reputation and post-attack policies. In contrast, when a successful attack...