The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice

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Volume 38, issue 4, 2013

Guest Editorial pp. 635-637

Krzysztof Ostaszewski and Anthony Webb

Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases: An Evaluation of the Italian Pension System pp. 638-674

Michele Belloni and Carlo Maccheroni

The Effect of Pillar 1 on Efficient Investment Portfolio Choice in the Case of the United States pp. 675-700

Krzysztof Ostaszewski

Intergenerational Transfers and the Stability of the Swiss Retirement System pp. 701-728

Martin Eling

Should Households Base Asset Decumulation Strategies on Required Minimum Distribution Tables&quest pp. 729-752

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

Financial Flexibility and Tax Incentives: Evidence from Defined Benefit Corporate Pension Plans in Japan pp. 753-776

Shingo Goto and Noriyoshi Yanase

What Determines Annuity Demand at Retirement&quest pp. 777-802

Giuseppe Cappelletti, Giovanni Guazzarotti and Pietro Tommasino

How Households Adjust their Consumption and Investment Plans under Longevity Risk: An Experimental Approach-based Study in Taiwan pp. 803-823

Joseph J Tien and Jerry C Y Miao

Implications of Full and Partial Retirement for Replacement Rates in a Defined Benefit System pp. 824-856

Tunga Kantarcı, Ingrid A J Smeets and Arthur van Soest

The Impact of Health on Work in China: A Study Using Pilot Survey Data pp. 857-870

Yue-Hua Zhang, Chu-Shiu Li, Chwen-Chi Liu and Sheng-Chang Peng

Volume 38, issue 3, 2013

Promoting Better Understanding on Sustainable Disaster Risk Management Strategies pp. 401-405

Christophe Courbage and Olivier Mahul

Natural Disasters, Political Risk and Insurance Market Development pp. 406-448

Chun-Ping Chang and Aziz N Berdiev

The Effect of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Stock Prices of Non-life Insurance Companies pp. 449-468

Atsushi Takao, Takuya Yoshizawa, Shuofen Hsu and Takashi Yamasaki

The Welfare Economics of Catastrophe Losses and Insurance pp. 469-494

Dwight Jaffee and Thomas Russell

The Impact of Disaster Relief on Economic Growth: Evidence from China pp. 495-520

Xian Xu and Jiawei Mo

An Economic Analysis of Climate Adaptations to Hurricane Risk in St. Lucia pp. 521-546

Chieh Ou-Yang, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Living with Floods: Protective Behaviours and Risk Perception of Vietnamese Households pp. 547-579

Arnaud Reynaud, Cécile Aubert and Manh Hung Nguyen

What Drives Insurers’ Demand for Cat Bond Investments? Evidence from a Pan-European Survey pp. 580-611

Alexander Braun, Katja Müller and Hato Schmeiser

Subjective Risks, Objective Risks and the Crop Insurance Problem in Rural China pp. 612-633

Calum Turvey, Xin Gao, Rong Nie, Linping Wang and Rong Kong

Volume 38, issue 2, 2013

Dialectics of the Current Regulatory and Supervisory Developments in Insurance pp. 183-188

Jan Monkiewicz

Risk Measures and Capital Requirements: A Critique of the Solvency II Approach pp. 189-212

Alberto Floreani

New Solvency Regulation: What CEOs of Insurance Companies Think pp. 213-249

Markus Kreutzer and Joël Wagner

Will Solvency II Market Risk Requirements Bite? The Impact of Solvency II on Insurers’ Asset Allocation pp. 250-273

Dirk Höring

Risk-Based Capital and Firm Risk Taking in Property-Liability Insurance pp. 274-307

Jiang Cheng and Mary Weiss

Solvency Assessment for Insurance Groups in the United States and Europe—A Comparison of Regulatory Frameworks pp. 308-331

Caroline Siegel

Accounting for European Insurance M&A Transactions: Fair Value of Insurance Contracts and Duplex IFRS/U.S. GAAP Purchase Accounting pp. 332-353

Karsten Paetzmann and Christine Lippl

Maximum Technical Interest Rates in Life Insurance in Europe and the United States: An Overview and Comparison pp. 354-375

Martin Eling and Stefan Holder

Accounting for “Insurance Contracts” According to IASB Exposure Draft—Is the Information Useful&quest pp. 376-398

Tristan Nguyen and Philipp Molinari

Volume 38, issue 1, 2013

Do Japanese Policyholders Care About Insurers’ Credit Quality&quest pp. 1-21

Sojung Carol Park and Yasuyuki Tokutsune

Portfolio Diversification with Life Settlements: An Empirical Analysis Applied to Mutual Funds pp. 22-42

Nuria Bajo Davó, Carmen Mendoza Resco and Manuel Monjas Barroso

Foreign Participation and Its Relationship with Non-Life Insurer Performance in the Northeast Asian Markets pp. 43-61

Yu-Luen Ma, Nat Pope and Raymond Yeung

Demand for Life Insurance—An Empirical Analysis in the Case of Poland pp. 62-87

Adam Sliwinski, Tomasz Michalski and Malgorzata Roszkiewicz

Life Insurance in India: the Relationship between Reforms and Growth in Business pp. 88-112

Amlan Ghosh

EVA/RAROC vs. MCEV Earnings: A Unification Approach pp. 113-136

Christian Kraus

Editorial — Shin Research Excellence Awards: A partnership of The Geneva Association/International Insurance Society pp. 137-139

Joan Lamm-Tennant

The Determinants of the Profitability of Micro-Life Insurers in Nigeria pp. 140-159

Olajumoke Olaosebikan

Development and Sustainability of Emerging Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from Microinsurance in Pakistan pp. 160-180

Yi (Kitty) Yao

Insurance Rebates, Incentives and Primary Care in Australia pp. 181-181

Luke Connelly and James R G Butler

Volume 37, issue 4, 2012

Editorial pp. 605-608

Christophe Courbage and Michael Hoy

Effect of Type of Insurance and Income on Waiting Time for Outpatient Care pp. 609-632

Kathrin Roll, Tom Stargardt and Jonas Schreyögg

The Impact of Health Insurance on Health-care Utilisation and Out-of-Pocket Payments in South Africa pp. 633-654

John Ataguba and Jane Goudge

Private Health Insurance and Inpatient Service Utilisation among Adults and Elderly People under Taiwan’s National Insurance Programme pp. 655-677

Wei-Hua Tian, Joseph J Tien, Chin-Shyan Chen and Tsai-Ching Liu

The “Weisbrod Quadrilemma” Revisited: Insurance Incentives on New Health Technologies pp. 678-695

Joan Costa-Font, Alistair McGuire and Victoria Serra-Sastre

Why Do Employers Self-insure? New Explanations for the Choice of Self-insurance vs. Purchased Health Insurance pp. 696-711

Roger Feldman

How Much Risk Is Mitigated by LTC Protection Schemes? A Methodological Note and a Case Study of the Public System in Spain pp. 712-724

Montserrat Guillen and Adelina Comas-Herrera

Private Health Insurance Incentives in Australia: The Effects of Recent Changes to Price Carrots and Income Sticks pp. 725-744

Alex Robson and Francesco Paolucci

Insurance Rebates, Incentives and Primary Care in Australia pp. 745-762

Luke Connelly and James R G Butler

Operational Losses for the Capital Charge of Health Insurers: Lessons from Spain pp. 763-779

Rafael Hernández Barros and María Isabel Martínez Torre-Enciso

Volume 37, issue 3, 2012

The Financial and Economic Attributes of Insurers pp. 401-404

Etti G Baranoff

Insurance Stock Returns and Economic Growth pp. 405-428

Chunyang Zhou, Chongfeng Wu, Donghui Li and Zhian Chen

Information Embedded in Directors and Officers Insurance Purchases pp. 429-451

Manu Gupta and Puneet Prakash

Reinsurance Purchases, Contingent Commission Payments and Insurer Reserve Estimation pp. 452-466

Mark J Browne, Lan Ju and Yu Lei

An Analysis of Reinsurance and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Taiwan Property-Liability Insurance Industry pp. 467-484

Hsu-Hua Lee and Chen-Ying Lee

Reputational Signals and Capital Acquisition When Insurance Companies Go Public pp. 485-508

Richard B Carter and Mark L Power

Optimal Capital Structure for a Property-Liability Insurer pp. 509-538

Stephen P D'Arcy and Teresa Lwin

A Comparative Assessment of Basel II/III and Solvency II pp. 539-570

Nadine Gatzert and Hannah Wesker

Who Benefits from Building Insurance Groups? A Welfare Analysis of Optimal Group Capital Management pp. 571-593

Sebastian Schlütter and Helmut Gründl

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 2011: A Catalyst for New Research Ideas pp. 594-602

Jean-François Outreville

Erratum: A Comparative Study of Public–Private Catastrophe Insurance Systems: Lessons from Current Practices pp. 603-603

Youbaraj Paudel, Wouter Botzen and Jeroen C J H Aerts

A Comparative Study of Public–Private Catastrophe Insurance Systems: Lessons from Current Practices pp. 603-603

Youbaraj Paudel, Wouter Botzen and Jeroen C J H Aerts

Volume 37, issue 2, 2012

Insurance Law and Economics Research for Natural Hazard Management in a Changing Climate pp. 201-205

Reimund Schwarze

Explaining the Failure to Insure Catastrophic Risks pp. 206-227

Carolyn Kousky and Roger Cooke

Disasters and Decentralisation pp. 228-256

Jason Scott Johnston

A Comparative Study of Public—Private Catastrophe Insurance Systems: Lessons from Current Practices pp. 257-285

Youbaraj Paudel

A Comparative Study of Public—Private Catastrophe Insurance Systems: Lessons from Current Practices pp. 257-285

Youbaraj Paudel

Climate Change, Weather Insurance Design and Hedging Effectiveness pp. 286-317

Ines Kapphan, Pierluigi Calanca and Annelie Holzkaemper

What Role for “Long-term Insurance” in Adaptation? An Analysis of the Prospects for and Pricing of Multi-year Insurance Contracts pp. 318-339

Trevor Maynard and Nicola Ranger

Risk and Insurability of Storm Damages to Residential Buildings in Austria pp. 340-364

Franz Prettenthaler, Hansjörg Albrecher, Judith Köberl and Dominik Kortschak

The Impact of Climate Change on Precipitation-related Insurance Risk: A Study of the Effect of Future Scenarios on Residential Buildings in Norway pp. 365-376

Ida Scheel and Mikkel Hinnerichsen

Proposal for a National Earthquake Insurance Programme for Greece pp. 377-400

Aglaia Petseti and Milton Nektarios

Volume 37, issue 1, 2012

Moving Insurance pp. 1-4

Patrick M Liedtke

Who Responds to Tax Reforms? Evidence from the Life Insurance Market pp. 5-26

Carolin Hecht and Katja Hanewald

Non-Risk Price Discrimination in Insurance: Market Outcomes and Public Policy pp. 27-46

R Guy Thomas

Regulation and Reform of Rating Agencies in the European Union: An Insurance Industry Perspective pp. 47-76

Anja Theis and Michael Wolgast

Insurability in Microinsurance Markets: An Analysis of Problems and Potential Solutions pp. 77-107

Christian Biener and Martin Eling

Governance and Shareholder Response to Chief Risk Officer Appointments pp. 108-124

Manu Gupta, Puneet Prakash and Nanda Rangan

Globalisation and Convergence of International Life Insurance Markets pp. 125-154

Chien-Chiang Lee and Chi-Hung Chang

Structure, Principles and Effectiveness of Insurance Regulation in the 21st Century: Insights from Canada pp. 155-174

Mary Kelly, Anne Kleffner and Darrell Leadbetter

Principles for Insurance Regulation: An Evaluation of Current Practices and Potential Reforms pp. 175-199

Robert W Klein