risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …

worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …

that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We interpret this function as insurance and test the option to insure … donations in the lab. Our participants indeed have a positive willingness to pay for insurance against either risk. Yet the … insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …

How should intermediaries influence the insurance demand decision? The answer must refer to the interdependence of … essential for the insurance demand decision. Undoubtedly, consumers lack information about certain variables, and therefore … and to provide the correct information. Since the information in the insurance market is asymmetrically distributed, an …

influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in any economy including …; most of which look at narrow elements that determine insurance companies’ performance. This article sought to explore the … components contributing to the financial performance of insurance firms. We employed a sample consisting of 37 general insurers …

Objective: The objective of the article is to empirically examine the predictors of ROA and ROE for banks and insurance … significant and negative for ROE. Banks earned lower return on their assets and higher return on their equity than insurance … for firms in the insurance industry. …

variables directly related to the insurance product (e.g., a regulatory restriction of insurance acquisition costs) as well as … importance of insurance distribution in banks. Significant risk factors (statistically significant) which determine gross … cooperation between banks and insurers as well as the specificity of insurance products distribution (also local) in the …