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Dynamic Portfolio Management for Property and Casualty Insurance
Profiles in Operations Research, 2011Recent trends in the insurance sector have highlighted the expansion of large insurance firms into asset management. In addition to their historical liability risk exposure associated with statutory activity, the growth of investment management divisions has caused increasing exposure to financial market fluctuations.
Giorgio Consigli, Vittorio Moriggia
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The insurance distribution systems and efficiency in the property‐casualty insurance industry
Managerial Finance, 2009PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate coexistence of multiple distribution systems in property‐casualty (P/C) insurance industry in the USA.Design/methodology/approachStochastic frontier analysis is used to measure cost and revenue efficiencies of P/C insurance companies utilizing different distribution systems.FindingsIndependent agent ...
Jin Park, Sukho Lee, Han Bin Kang
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Property-Casualty Insurance Guaranty Funds and Insurer Vulnerability to Misfortune [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1996 The presence of third-party guarantees such as insurance guaranty funds can induce managers of covered institutions to take actions that increase the level of risk or increase vulnerability to unfavorable developments. This paper presents evidence of these effects taking place under insurance guaranty funds.
Soon-Ja Lee, Michael L. Smith
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Law and the Determinants of Property‐Casualty Insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2001AbstractThis article examines the importance of legal rights and enforcement in influencing property‐casualty insurance (PCI) consumption. We extend the existing literature by examining the role of legal factors in determining insurance density across countries. Also, measures of risk aversion, loss probability, and price, which overcome limitations of
Esho, N. +3 more
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Output of the Property and Casualty Insurance Industry [PDF]
The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'Economique, 1999 This paper presents two concepts of output for the property and casualty insurance industry. One is implicit in the U.S. national accounts and the 1993 System of National Accounts (SNA); the other is from the economics literature. For each concept, alternative methods for measuring the nominal value of insurance output are presented.
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The structure of the property/casualty insurance industry
Journal of Economics and Business, 1996Abstract The proposition of market power abuse by insurers is predicated on the existence of economies of scale and/or scope. Economies of scale and scope for the property/casualty insurance industry are estimated for the first time using the generalized Box-Cox multiproduct cost function model.
Gerald A Hanweck, Arthur M.B Hogan
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Ownership Structure Across Lines of Property-Casualty Insurance
The Journal of Law and Economics, 1988The range of ownership structures within the insurance industry is perhaps the broadest of any major industry. Included are Lloyds associations, where insurance contracts are offered by individual underwriters, stock companies that employ the standard corporate form, and mutuals and reciprocals that are more like cooperatives where customer and ...
Mayers, David, Smith, Clifford W.
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The Effect of Taxes on the Location of Property‐Casualty Insurance Firms
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2018AbstractStates levy insurance premium taxes, which are essentially gross receipt taxes on premiums. An unusual characteristic of insurance premium taxes is that in each state in which an insurance company writes premiums, the firm pays the higher of the tax rate in the state in which the company is domiciled and the state in which the policy is written.
Martin F. Grace, David L. Sjoquist
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Applying simulation optimization to the asset allocation of a property–casualty insurer
European Journal of Operational Research, 2010zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Tzu-Yi Yu +2 more
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