The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice

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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

Volume 36, issue 4, 2011

Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2010–2011 Update pp. 489-500

David Blake, Christophe Courbage, Richard MacMinn and Michael Sherris

Longevity Risk from the Perspective of the ILS Markets&ast pp. 501-515

Morton Lane

Longevity Risk in Fair Valuing Level 3 Assets in Securitised Portfolios&ast pp. 516-543

Peter Macrae Mazonas, Patrick John Eric Stallard and Lynford Graham

Economic Pricing of Mortality-linked Securities in the Presence of Population Basis Risk pp. 544-566

Rui Zhou, Johnny Siu-Hang Li and Ken Seng Tan

Applications of Forward Mortality Factor Models in Life Insurance Practice&ast pp. 567-594

Nan Zhu and Daniel Bauer

Modelling Mortality with Common Stochastic Long-Run Trends pp. 595-621

Séverine Gaille and Michael Sherris

Securitisation of Crossover Risk in Reverse Mortgages pp. 622-647

Hong-Chih Huang, Chou-Wen Wang and Yuan-Chi Miao

Securitisation and Tranching Longevity and House Price Risk for Reverse Mortgage Products pp. 648-674

Sharon S Yang

A Quantitative Comparison of the Lee-Carter Model under Different Types of Non-Gaussian Innovations pp. 675-696

Chou-Wen Wang, Hong-Chih Huang and I-Chien Liu

Using Reverse Mortgages to Hedge Longevity and Financial Risks for Life Insurers: A Generalised Immunisation Approach pp. 697-717

Jennifer L Wang, Ming-hua Hsieh and Yu-fen Chiu

A Study of Incidence Experience for Taiwan Life Insurance pp. 718-733

Ching-Syang Jack Yue and Hong-Chih Huang

Volume 36, issue 3, 2011

Rules of Engagement: Global Regulatory Reforms and the Insurance Industry pp. 325-329

Patrick M Liedtke

Risk Management and the Global Banking Crisis: Lessons for Insurance Solvency Regulation pp. 330-347

Simon Ashby

The Interplay between Insurers’ Financial and Asset Risks during the Crisis of 2007–2009 pp. 348-379

Etti Baranoff and Thomas W Sager

Investigating Risk Disclosure Practices in the European Insurance Industry pp. 380-413

Dirk Höring and Helmut Gründl

Implementation of Enterprise Risk Management: Evidence from the German Property-Liability Insurance Industry pp. 414-439

Muhammed Altuntas, Thomas R Berry-Stölzle and Robert E Hoyt

Career Interruptions: How Do They Impact Pension Rights&quest pp. 440-457

Najat El Mekkaoui, Cindy Duc, Karine Briard, Sabine Mage-Bertomeu and Bérangère Legendre

Stochastic Mortality, Macroeconomic Risks and Life Insurer Solvency pp. 458-475

Katja Hanewald, Thomas Post and Helmut Gründl

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 2010: We Have Learned Much Since Willett and Knight pp. 476-487

Jean-François Outreville

Volume 36, issue 2, 2011

The Productivity of European Life Insurers: Best-Practice Adoption vs. Innovation pp. 165-185

Fabio Bertoni and Annalisa Croce

What Motivates Insurers to Use Derivatives: Evidence from the United Kingdom Life Insurance Industry pp. 186-196

Yung-Ming Shiu

Demutualisation, Control and Efficiency in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry pp. 197-225

Xiaoying Xie, Weili Lu, Joseph Reising and Mark Hoven Stohs

Risk Margin Estimation through the Cost of Capital Approach: Some Conceptual Issues&ast pp. 226-253

Alberto Floreani

A Traffic Light Approach to Solvency Measurement of Swiss Occupational Pension Funds pp. 254-282

Alexander Braun, Przemysław Rymaszewski and Hato Schmeiser

Value Relevance of Embedded Value and IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts pp. 283-303

Rebecca Chung-Fern Wu and Audrey Wen-Hsin Hsu

Assessing Adequacy of Retirement Income for U.S. Households: A Replacement Ratio Approach pp. 304-323

Yoonkyung Yuh

Volume 36, issue 1, 2011

The Century of a Gentleman: Fabio Padoa Schioppa, Former Chief Executive Officer of Generali, and Founder and Former President (1976–1983) of The Geneva Association pp. 1-2

Orio Giarini

On the Valuation of Investment Guarantees in Unit-linked Life Insurance: A Customer Perspective pp. 3-29

Nadine Gatzert, Carin Huber and Hato Schmeiser

Liability-Driven Investing for Life Insurers pp. 30-49

David van Bragt and Dirk-Jan Kort

Corporate, Product and Distribution Strategies in the European Life Insurance Industry pp. 50-75

Paul J M Klumpes and Stefan Schuermann

A Comparison of Bancassurance and Traditional Insurer Sales Channels pp. 76-93

Pang-Ru Chang, Jin-Lung Peng and Chiang Ku Fan

Liberalisation and Market Concentration Impact on Performance of the Non-Life Insurance Industry: The Evidence from Eastern Europe pp. 94-106

Vladimir Njegomir and Dragan Stojić

Management Strategies in Multi-year Enterprise Risk Management pp. 107-125

Dorothea Diers

Insurance, Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis pp. 126-163

Faisal Baluch, Stanley Mutenga and Chris Parsons