The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice

1990 - 2025

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Volume 41, issue 4, 2016

Costs and Benefits of Financial Regulation: An Empirical Assessment for Insurance Companies pp. 529-554

Martin Eling and David Pankoke

An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs pp. 555-586

Evan Mills and Richard B Jones

The Final Solvency II Framework: Will It Be Effective? pp. 587-607

René Doff

The S-curve and Reality pp. 608-625

Giovanni Millo

Corporate Insurance Versus Risk Retention: An Empirical Analysis of Medium and Large Companies in Poland pp. 626-649

Grzegorz Strupczewski, Michal Thlon and Kamil Fijorek

The Opaqueness of Structured Bonds: Evidence from the U.S. Insurance Industry pp. 650-676

Sojung Carol Park, Jean Lemaire and Xiaoying Xie

Weather Insurance Savings Accounts pp. 677-700

Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman

Volume 41, issue 3, 2016

Cross-Border Insurance in Europe: Challenges for Supervision pp. 351-377

Dirk Schoenmaker and Jan Sass

Corporate Reputation and Financial Performance of Life Insurers pp. 378-397

Tsai-Jyh Chen

Empirical Findings on Motor Insurance Pricing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland pp. 398-431

Daniela Laas, Hato Schmeiser and Joël Wagner

Do Typhoons Cause Turbulence in Property-Liability Insurers’ Stock Prices&quest pp. 432-454

Takashi Yamasaki

Moral Hazard in Insurance Claiming from a Korean Natural Experiment pp. 455-467

Bong-Joo Lee and Dae-Hwan Kim

Life Insurance Ownership by Italian Households: A Gender-Based Differences Analysis pp. 468-490

Elisa Luciano, J François Outreville and Mariacristina Rossi

Determinants of Life Insurance Demand in the MENA Region pp. 491-511

Mouna Zerriaa and Hedi Noubbigh

Weather Indicators for Insured Hailstorm Damage to Motor Vehicles and Potential Climate Change Impacts pp. 512-527

Wouter Botzen and Laurens M Bouwer

Corporate Reputation and Financial Performance of Life Insurers pp. 528-528

Tsai-Jyh Chen

Volume 41, issue 2, 2016

Guest Editorial pp. 179-183

David Dror

Illness Makes Credit Sick: Can Health Insurance Rescue the Poor from Exploitative Credit&quest pp. 184-204

Basri Savitha and K B Kiran

Uptake of Multiple Microinsurance Schemes: Evidence from Sri Lanka pp. 205-224

Mirko Bendig and Thankom Arun

On the Impact of Agricultural Livestock Microinsurance on Death-Loss, Production and Vaccine Use: Observations from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China pp. 225-243

Yuehua Zhang, Xi Zhu and Calum Turvey

Enhancing the Inclusion of Vulnerable and High-Risk Groups in Demand-Side Health Financing Schemes in Cambodia: A Concept for a Risk-Adjusted Subsidy Approach pp. 244-258

Ralf Radermacher, Siddharth Srivastava, Matthew Walsham, Chhorn Sao and Francesco Paolucci

A Spatial Econometric Approach to Designing and Rating Scalable Index Insurance in the Presence of Missing Data pp. 259-279

Joshua D Woodard, Apurba Shee and Andrew Mude

“Climate Cost of Cultivation”: A New Crop Index Method to Quantify Farmers’ Cost of Climate Change Exemplified in Rural India† pp. 280-306

Nihar Jangle, Mamta Mehra and David Dror

Reinsurance and Liquidity: Evidence from the United Kingdom General Insurance Industry pp. 307-324

Hui-Hsuan Liu, Yung-Ming Shiu and Tsung-Chi Liu

Strategic Group Performance and Dynamics under Different Economic Conditions pp. 325-347

Muhammed Altuntas, Jannes Rauch and Sabine Wende

Volume 41, issue 1, 2016

Editorial pp. 1-3

Michael Sherris

Determinants of the Stated Probability of Purchase for Longevity Insurance pp. 4-23

Michael A Guillemette, Terrance K Martin, Benjamin F Cummings and Russell N James

Longevity Risk in Notional Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: A Solution pp. 24-52

Séverine Arnold (-Gaille), María del Carmen Boado-Penas and Humberto Godínez-Olivares

Enhanced Annuities: Drivers of and Barriers to Supply and Demand pp. 53-77

Nadine Gatzert and Udo Klotzki

Guarantee Structures in Life Annuities: A Comparative Analysis pp. 78-97

Ermanno Pitacco

A Proposal for Redesigning Social Security: Long-Term Care Pension pp. 98-117

Shuji Tanaka

Towards a Large and Liquid Longevity Market: A Graphical Population Basis Risk Metric pp. 118-127

Wai-Sum Chan, Johnny S-H Li, Kenneth Q Zhou and Rui Zhou

How Do Unisex Rating Regulations Affect Gender Differences in Insurance Premiums&quest pp. 128-160

Vijay Aseervatham, Christoph Lex and Martin Spindler

Is Reinsurance a Substitute for or a Complement to Derivative Usage? Evidence from the U.K. Non-Life Insurance Industry pp. 161-178

Yung-Ming Shiu

Volume 40, issue 4, 2015

Insurance Companies’ Responses to Climate Change: Adaptation, Dynamic Capabilities and Competitive Advantage pp. 557-584

Kristin Stechemesser, Jan Endrikat, Nico Grasshoff and Edeltraud Guenther

The Impact of Diversification on Performance in the Insurance Industry: The Roles of Globalisation, Financial Reforms and Global Crisis pp. 585-631

Meng-Fen Hsieh, Chien-Chiang Lee and Shih-Jui Yang

Competition and Its Variation Over Time: An Empirical Analysis of the Chinese Insurance Industry pp. 632-652

Vivian S C Jeng

Guaranty Funds, Government Shareholding and Risk Taking: Evidence from China pp. 653-677

Shi Hong and Shizhe Bao

Empirical Analysis of the Risks and Resilience to Shocks of the Macedonian Insurance Sector pp. 678-700

Blagica Petreski

Value Creation and Solvency: A Simple Approach to Deriving a Non-Life Insurer’s Optimal Growth Strategy pp. 701-719

Matthias Schmautz

Overcoming Barriers to Microinsurance Adoption: Evidence from the Field† pp. 720-740

Shawn Cole

The Role of Insurance in Reducing Losses from Extreme Events: The Need for Public–Private Partnerships† pp. 741-762

Howard Kunreuther

Volume 40, issue 3, 2015

Editorial pp. 355-358

Etti Baranoff

Systemic Features of Insurance and Banking, and the Role of Leverage, Capital and Loss Absorption pp. 359-384

Christian Thimann

The Effects of a Low Interest Rate Environment on Life Insurers pp. 385-415

Elia Berdin and Helmut Gründl

The Effects of Contingent Convertible (CoCo) Bonds on Insurers’ Capital Requirements Under Solvency II pp. 416-443

Tobias Niedrig and Helmut Gründl

Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Insurance Industry: Valuation Effects pp. 444-473

John Cummins, Paul Klumpes and Mary Weiss

The Structure of Reinsurance Contracts pp. 474-492

M. Martin Boyer and Théodora Dupont-Courtade

Efficiency, Productivity and Returns to Scale Economies in the Non-Life Insurance Market in South Africa pp. 493-515

Abdul Latif Alhassan and Nicholas Biekpe

The Relative Informativeness of Analysts’ Stock Return Forecasts and Rating Changes for Insurance Companies pp. 516-537

Leon Chen and Steven W Pottier

Government Intervention through an Implicit Federal Backstop: Is There a Link to Market Power&quest pp. 538-555

David L Eckles and James I Hilliard

Volume 40, issue 2, 2015

Could Flood Insurance be Privatised in the United States? A Primer pp. 179-208

Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Jeffrey Czajkowski and Howard Kunreuther

Measuring Risk Premiums Using Financial Reports and Actuarial Disclosures pp. 209-231

Jochen Zimmermann, Stefan Veith and Johannes Schymczyk

Underwriting Apophenia and Cryptids: Are Cycles Statistical Figments of our Imagination&quest pp. 232-255

M. Martin Boyer and Iqbal Owadally

Insurance Regulation and Life Catastrophe Risk: Treatment of Life Catastrophe Risk Under the SCR Standard Formula of Solvency II and the Necessity of Partial Internal Models pp. 256-278

Gunther Kraut and Andreas Richter

Suggestions for Bancassurance Markets in China: Implications from European Countries pp. 279-294

Hsin-Yu Liang and Yann Peng Ching

Consequences of Financial Vulnerability and Insurance Loading for the Affordability of Earthquake Insurance Systems: Evidence from Iran pp. 295-315

Naghmeh Pakdel-Lahiji, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany and Mehdi Sadeghi

What Determines Lloyd’s Market Syndicates’ Unsolicited Ratings&quest pp. 316-333

Yung-Ming Shiu

Managerial Authority, Turnover Intention and Medical Insurance Claims Adjusters’ Recommendations for Claim Payments pp. 334-352

Lu-Ming Tseng and Yue-Min Kang

Volume 40, issue 1, 2015

Diversification through Catastrophe Bonds: Lessons from the Subprime Financial Crisis pp. 1-28

Peter Carayannopoulos and M. Fabricio Perez

Testing for Asymmetric Information in Reinsurance Markets pp. 29-46

Zhiqiang Yan and Liang Hong

Solvency Prediction for Property-Liability Insurance Companies: Evidence from the Financial Crisis pp. 47-65

Jannes Rauch and Sabine Wende

Regulatory Forbearance and the Failure Cost for U.S. Property and Liability Insurers pp. 66-88

Yi-Hsun Lai, Wen-Chang Lin, Min-Ming Wen and Chien-Po Wang

Bancassurance and Scale Economies: Evidence from Italy pp. 89-107

Alberto Dreassi and Maria Claudia Schneider

Why Choose an Insurance Career? A Pilot Study of University Students’ Preferences Regarding the Insurance Profession pp. 108-130

Madhusudan Acharyya and Davide Secchi

Insurability of Cyber Risk: An Empirical Analysis† pp. 131-158

Christian Biener, Martin Eling and Jan Wirfs

An Examination of the Geographic Aggregation of Catastrophic Risk† pp. 159-177

Randy E Dumm, Mark E Johnson and Charles C Watson