case of systemically important insurance (G-SIIs) identification methodology was prepared and announced recently. The … objective is to prove that the proposal for the insurance sector better captures the essence of the problem G-SIFIs than the … proposal prepared and implemented for the banking sector (G-SIBs), while at the same time indicate that the insurance sector …

The top 100 international (re)insurance groups account for 85% of the global insurance assets and thus are the driving … force of global insurance supply. Yet little is known about their internal structure, business focus and the international … footprint. We fill the gap by providing the first comprehensive analysis of the structure and complexity of the global insurance …

The development of international norms for insurance has not progressed as far or as deeply as the development of … new. The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (“IAIS”) has existed for less than fifteen years while the … only thirteen members from only developed nations.Finally, the fact that insurance is regulated by the states within the …

This paper is the first to examine the effects of consolidation in the international insurance industry on the … strong positive relation between consolidation in the insurance industry and moderate systemic risk in the insurance and …-traditional financing activities, and diversification across insurance lines all add to the destabilizing effect of insurance consolidation …

Reinsurance is an integral transaction to the insurance business and carries real economic consequences. While the …