Keyword: insurance

Found 104 papers in total
Earnings Smoothing, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Governance: Evidence From the Property–Liability Insurance Industry
Earnings Smoothing, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Governance: Evidence From the Property–Liability Insurance Industry
2011,
Unlike studies that estimate managerial bias, we utilize a direct measure of...
An Empirical Examination of Stakeholder Groups as Monitoring Sources in Corporate Governance
An Empirical Examination of Stakeholder Groups as Monitoring Sources in Corporate Governance
2011,
Insurers are formally and informally monitored by a variety of stakeholders, including...
CEO Turnover and Ownership Structure: Evidence From the U.S. Property–Liability Insurance Industry
CEO Turnover and Ownership Structure: Evidence From the U.S. Property–Liability Insurance Industry
2011,
This article examines the impact of ownership structure on the relation between firm...
Institutional Ownership Stability and Risk Taking: Evidence From the Life–Health Insurance Industry
Institutional Ownership Stability and Risk Taking: Evidence From the Life–Health Insurance Industry
2011,
We investigate the relationship between risk taking of life–health (LH) insurers...
Chief Executive Officer Incentives, Monitoring, and Corporate Risk Management: Evidence From Insurance Use
Chief Executive Officer Incentives, Monitoring, and Corporate Risk Management: Evidence From Insurance Use
2011,
Corporate governance and risk management issues have received prominent publicity in...
The Impact of CEO Turnover on Property–Liability Insurer Performance
The Impact of CEO Turnover on Property–Liability Insurer Performance
2011,
Chief executive officer (CEO) turnover has long been an important topic in the...
Valuing the Longevity Insurance Acquired by Delayed Claiming of Social Security
Valuing the Longevity Insurance Acquired by Delayed Claiming of Social Security
2011,
Individuals can claim Social Security at any age from 62 to 70, although most claim at...
Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution? A Study of Pension Choices
Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution? A Study of Pension Choices
2011,
We solve an empirically parameterized life‐cycle model of consumption and...
Does Insurance Help to Escape the Poverty Trap?–A Ruin Theoretic Approach
Does Insurance Help to Escape the Poverty Trap?–A Ruin Theoretic Approach
2011,
Poverty trapping refers to the fact that poor people in developing countries cannot...
Commitment and Lapse Behavior in Long-Term Insurance: A Case Study
Commitment and Lapse Behavior in Long-Term Insurance: A Case Study
2011,
This article presents a case study of a portfolio of individual long‐term...
Securitization of Longevity Risk Using Percentile Tranching
Securitization of Longevity Risk Using Percentile Tranching
2011,
Securitizations that transfer risk to the financial markets are a potential solution...
Canonical Valuation of Mortality-Linked Securities
Canonical Valuation of Mortality-Linked Securities
2011,
A fundamental question in the study of mortality‐linked securities is how to...
Longevity Risk Management in Singapore's National Pension System
Longevity Risk Management in Singapore's National Pension System
2011,
Although annuities are a theoretically appealing way to manage longevity risk, in the...
Understanding the Death Benefit Switch Option in Universal Life Policies
Understanding the Death Benefit Switch Option in Universal Life Policies
2011,
Universal life policies are the most popular insurance contract design in the United...
Maximum‐loss, minimum‐win and the Esscher pricing principle
Maximum‐loss, minimum‐win and the Esscher pricing principle
2012,
Maximum‐loss (Max‐loss) was recently introduced as a valuation...
Ruin probability and time of ruin with a proportional reinsurance threshold strategy
Ruin probability and time of ruin with a proportional reinsurance threshold strategy
2012,
In this paper, we present a threshold proportional reinsurance strategy and we analyze...
On optimality of the barrier strategy for a general Lévy risk process
On optimality of the barrier strategy for a general Lévy risk process
2011,
We consider the optimal dividend problem for the insurance risk process in a general...
Stochastic dominance of portfolio insurance strategies
Stochastic dominance of portfolio insurance strategies
2011,
The purpose of this article is to analyze and compare two standard portfolio insurance...
Differential mortality and social security
Differential mortality and social security
2011,
This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between individuals who...
Asymmetric Information and Countermeasures in Early Twentieth-Century American Short-Term Disability Microinsurance
Asymmetric Information and Countermeasures in Early Twentieth-Century American Short-Term Disability Microinsurance
2011,
American workers and employers a century ago formed microinsurance funds to provide...
Collective adjustment of pension rights in ALM models
Collective adjustment of pension rights in ALM models
2011,
Collective adjustment of pension rights is a way to keep defined benefit systems...
Beninese and Ethiopian Informal Insurance Groups: A Comparative Analysis
Beninese and Ethiopian Informal Insurance Groups: A Comparative Analysis
2009,
Informal insurance groups have been created in many poor regions in response to a...
Optimal insurance strategies in a risk process with restrictions on policyholder risks
Optimal insurance strategies in a risk process with restrictions on policyholder risks
2010,
We consider the optimal choice problem by a risk-bearing function for an insurer to...
Development of utility function for life insurance buyers in the Indian market
Development of utility function for life insurance buyers in the Indian market
2010,
Insurance as a financial instrument has been used for a long time. The dramatic...
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