The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice

1990 - 2025

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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

Volume 39, issue 4, 2014

Editorial pp. 599-602

Thomas Buchmueller and Christophe Courbage

Lemons or Cherries? Asymmetric Information in the German Private Long-term Care Insurance Market pp. 603-624

Mark J Browne and Tian Zhou-Richter

Does Health Insurance Lead to Ex ante Moral Hazard? Evidence from China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme pp. 625-650

Xuezheng Qin and Tianyi Lu

Bilateral Intergenerational Moral Hazard: Empirical Evidence from China pp. 651-667

Xian Xu and Peter Zweifel

Personal Care Savings Bonds: A New Way of Saving Towards Social Care in Later Life&ast pp. 668-692

Les Mayhew and David Smith

The Demand for (Micro) Health Insurance in the Informal Sector pp. 693-711

David Dror and Lucy A Firth

Health Insurance Coverage Within Households: The Case of Private Health Insurance in South Africa pp. 712-726

Veloshnee Govender, John Ataguba and Olufunke Alaba

Private Health Insurance and Risk Protection: Changes in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending, 2001 and 2011 pp. 727-748

Minkyoung Yoo

The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Health Insurance Markets pp. 749-767

William Encinosa, Chad Meyerhoefer, Samuel Zuvekas and Dongyi Du

The Meaning of Risk? Insights from The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review pp. 768-781

Jean-François Outreville

Volume 39, issue 3, 2014

Solvency II: A Driver for Mergers and Acquisitions&quest pp. 417-439

Rayna Stoyanova and Helmut Gründl

Systemic Risk in the Insurance Sector: A Review of Current Assessment Approaches pp. 440-470

Andreas Jobst

Determinants of Insurance Industry Development in Transition Economies: Empirical Analysis of Visegrad Group Data pp. 471-492

Zuzana Brokesova, Erika Pastoráková and Tomáš Ondruška

Sales Efficiency in Life Insurance: The Drivers for Growth in the German Market pp. 493-524

Jonas Lorson and Joël Wagner

Guest Editorial pp. 525-526

Michael Faure and Miquel Martín-Casals

Efficient Court Decisions and Limiting Insurers’ Right of Recourse: The Case of Custodian Liability in the Netherlands and Belgium pp. 527-544

Jef De Mot and Louis Visscher

The Italian Motor Insurance Market: Will the Recent Interventions Solve the Old Efficiency Problems&quest pp. 545-568

Donatella Porrini

Special Insurance Systems for Motor Vehicle Liability pp. 569-584

Jef De Mot and Michael G Faure

Limiting Auditors’ Liability: The Case for (and Against) EU Intervention pp. 585-597

Niels J Philipsen

Volume 39, issue 2, 2014

Guest Editorial pp. 197-200

David Dror

Microinsurance Demand After a Rare Flood Event: Evidence From a Field Experiment in Pakistan pp. 201-223

Ginger Turner, Farah Said and Uzma Afzal

The Determinants of Microinsurance Demand pp. 224-263

Martin Eling, Shailee Pradhan and Joan T Schmit

The Insurability Framework Applied to Agricultural Microinsurance: What Do We Know, What Can We Learn&quest pp. 264-279

Esther Gehrke

Implementing a Participatory Model of Micro Health Insurance among Rural Poor with Evidence from Nepal pp. 280-303

David Dror, Atanu Majumdar, Pradeep Panda, Denny John and Ruth Koren

The Impact of Microinsurance on Household Asset Accumulation in Ghana: An Asset Index Approach pp. 304-321

Joseph Oscar Akotey and Charles Adjasi

Unisex Insurance Pricing: Consumers’ Perception and Market Implications pp. 322-350

Hato Schmeiser, Tina Störmer and Joël Wagner

Insurers’ Investment in Infrastructure: Overview and Treatment under Solvency II pp. 351-372

Nadine Gatzert and Thomas Kosub

Insurer Performance and Intermediary Remuneration: The Impact of Abandonment of Contingent Commissions pp. 373-388

Yu-Luen Ma, Nat Pope and Xiaoying Xie

The Response of Bond Prices to Insurer Ratings Changes pp. 389-413

Hong Miao, Sanjay Ramchander and Tianyang Wang

Volume 39, issue 1, 2014

The Determinants of Life Insurer’s Growth for a Developing Insurance Market: Domestic vs Foreign Insurance Firms pp. 1-24

Joseph J Tien and Sharon S Yang

Insurance Salespeople's Attitudes towards Collusion: The Case of Taiwan’s Car Insurance Industry pp. 25-41

Lu-Ming Tseng and Wen-Pin Su

A Competing Risks Dynamic Hazard Approach to Investigate the Insolvency Outcomes of Property-Casualty Insurers pp. 42-76

Huong Dang

Quantile Regression Analysis of Corporate Liquidity: Evidence from the U.S. Property–Liability Insurance Industry pp. 77-89

Vincent Y Chang and Jeffrey Tsai

Insurance Marketing Channel as a Screening Mechanism: Empirical Evidences from Taiwan Automobile Insurance Market pp. 90-103

Shu-Hui Hsieh, Chun-Ting Liu and Larry Y Tzeng

Asymmetric Information on Risky Behaviour: Evidence from the Automobile Insurance Market pp. 104-145

Sara Forsstedt

Editorial—Shin Research Excellence Awards: A partnership of The Geneva Association/International Insurance Society pp. 146-147

Joan Lamm-Tennant

Fair Valuation and Risk Assessment of Dynamic Hybrid Products in Life Insurance: A Portfolio Consideration&ast pp. 148-172

Alexander Bohnert and Nadine Gatzert

Human Capital Risk and Talent Management Issues in the Insurance Market: Public Policy, Industry and Collegiate Education Perspectives&ast pp. 173-196

W. Jean Kwon