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We estimate economies of scale and scope as well as cost and revenue efficiency to explain the structure of the global reinsurance market, where large reinsurers dominate but both diversified and specialized reinsurers are competitive. The costs and benefits of size and product diversification are particularly relevant to the reinsurance industry, as risk diversification is central…

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Using state-of-the-art frontier efficiency methodologies, we study the efficiency and productivity of Swiss insurance companies in the life, property/casualty, and reinsurance sectors from 1997-2013. In this context, we provide the first empirical analysis of internationalization strategies of insurance companies, a topic of high interest in the business and economics literature, but…

A central matter of dispute in the internationalization literature is the existence and shape of a systematic relationship between the degree of internationalization and firm performance (I-P relationship). Considering the global insurance industry, we show that the I-P relationship depends on the industry's idiosyncrasies and on the geographical scope of internationalization.…

Insurance companies are important financial institutions exposed to natural and man-made disasters. We conduct a comprehensive examination of existing asset pricing models in the US insurance universe (1988-2013) and propose an insurance-specific asset pricing model. We find that extant asset pricing models fail to explain the cross-section of insurance stock returns. Instead, we…

Die Zukunft kann niemand vorhersehen. Sie bleibt in der Gegenwart nicht umfänglich fassbar. Sie entgleitet dem Beobachter in dem Moment, in dem er sie festhalten will. Die Zukunft ist Folge der Komplexität des menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Bis in das Jahr 2050 kann alles passieren. Die Spielkarten werden dauernd neu gemischt. In diesem Zustand des Suchens und Deutens können…

The purpose of this article is to structure the extant knowledge on the determinants of microinsurance demand in a manner that achieves several outcomes. First is to offer a specific economic structure to the review through use of Outreville's insurance demand framework. Second is to identify key questions that arise out of structuring the material in this way. In particular, we…

This paper demonstrates the presence of adverse selection in the group insurance market for policies that allow no individual choice. As a "conventional wisdom," group insurance mitigates adverse selection, since individual choice is minimized and group losses have less variability than individual losses. We complement this "conventional wisdom" by analyzing a…

This paper analyzes the equity risk module of Solvency II, the new regulatory framework in the European Union. The equity risk module contains a symmetric adjustment mechanism called equity dampener which shall reduce procyclicality of capital requirements and thus systemic risk in the insurance sector. We critically review the equity risk module in three steps: we first analyze the…