The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice

1990 - 2025

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2008

Editorial pp. 585-587

Christophe Courbage

Community Rating, Entry-Age Rating and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance in Australia&ast pp. 588-609

Thomas Buchmueller

Private Supplementary Health Insurance: Retirees' Demand pp. 610-626

Carine Franc, Marc Perronnin and Aurélie Pierre

Health Insurance and Lifestyle Choices: Identifying Ex Ante Moral Hazard in the US Market pp. 627-644

Anderson Stanciole

Empirical Evidence on Long-term Care Insurance Purchase in France&ast pp. 645-658

Christophe Courbage and Nolwenn Roudaut

Long-Term Care: Risk Description of a Spanish Portfolio and Economic Analysis of the Timing of Insurance Purchase pp. 659-672

Montserrat Guillen and Jean Pinquet

Relative Income and Attitudes towards Long-Term Care Financing pp. 673-693

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Garcia-Gonzalez and Montserrat Font-Vilalta

An Empirical Analysis of Patterns in the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance System pp. 694-709

Olivia Mitchell, John Piggott and Satoshi Shimizutani

Does the Age Profile of Health Care Expenditure Really Steepen over Time? New Evidence from Swiss Cantons pp. 710-727

Stefan Felder and Andreas Werblow

Re-estimating the Demographic Impact on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 728-743

Yung-Ming Shiu and Mei-Ching Chiu

The Cost Incidence of the U.K.'s NHS System pp. 744-767

Paul J M Klumpes and Liyan Tang

Volume 33, issue 3, 2008

Why are Insurance Companies Different? The Limits of Convergence Among Financial Institutions&ast pp. 363-388

Andrea Beltratti and Giuseppe Corvino

Reasons for the Coexistence of Different Distribution Channels: An Empirical Test for the German Insurance Market pp. 389-407

Lucinda Trigo-Gamarra

Bancassurance: Tapping into the Banking Strength&ast pp. 408-417

Mark Teunissen

The Swiss Solvency Test and its Market Implications pp. 418-439

Martin Eling, Nadine Gatzert and Hato Schmeiser

The Relevance of Portfolio Management Action for Solvency Measurement pp. 440-463

Alexander König and Axel Brohm

Why Insurers Fail: The Dynamics of Property and Casualty Insurance Insolvency in Canada pp. 464-488

Darrell Leadbetter and Suela Dibra

The Chinese Insurance Market: Estimating its Long-Term Growth and Size&ast pp. 489-506

Wei Zheng, Yongdong Liu and Gerry Dickinson

Global Climate Change in the Wider Context of Sustainability pp. 507-529

Walter R Stahel

The Emergence of Cross-Border Insurance Groups within Europe with Centralised Risk Management pp. 530-546

Dirk Schoenmaker, Sander Oosterloo and Otto Winkels

Deposit Insurance and Banking Supervision in China: The Agenda Ahead pp. 547-565

Haibo Yan and Ying Huang

Demutualization and Demand for Reinsurance pp. 566-584

Jennifer L Wang, Vincent Y Chang, Gene C Lai and Larry Y Tzeng

Volume 33, issue 2, 2008

Malpractice Payouts and Malpractice Insurance: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990–2003&ast pp. 177-192

Charles Silver, Kathryn Zeiler, Bernard Black, David A Hyman and William M Sage

A Critical Analysis of the Solvency II Proposals pp. 193-206

René Doff

The Need to Monitor Customer Loyalty and Business Risk in the European Insurance Industry pp. 207-218

Montserrat Guillen, Jens Perch Nielsen and Ana M Pérez-Marín

Does National Health Insurance Promote Access to Quality Health Care? Evidence from Nigeria pp. 219-233

Ade Ibiwoye and Ismail A Adeleke

Risk Analysis of Mortality Improvement: The Case of Chinese Annuity Markets pp. 234-249

Hong Mao, Krzysztof M Ostaszewski and Yuling Wang

Insuring Large-Scale Floods in the Netherlands pp. 250-268

Ruben Jongejan and Pauline Barrieu

Law and Economics of Environmental Insurance (Editorial) pp. 269-273

Donatella Porrini

A European Nuclear Accident Pool&ast pp. 274-287

Göran Skogh

The Coverage of the Nuclear Risk in Europe: Which Alternative?&ast pp. 288-322

Michael G Faure and Karine Fiore

Hell or High Water? An Economic Analysis of the Swedish Institutions for Flood Risk Management pp. 323-336

Erik Lenntorp

The Efficient Liability Sharing Factor for Environmental Disasters: Lessons for Optimal Insurance Regulation&ast pp. 337-362

Marcel Boyer and Donatella Porrini

Volume 33, issue 1, 2008

The Securitization of Insurance Liabilities: The View from Zurich pp. 1-6

Dieter Wemmer

Securitization and Insurance – Characteristics of Hannover Re's Approach pp. 7-11

Wilhelm Zeller

Variable Annuities and the New Retirement Realities&ast pp. 12-32

Christopher M Condron

The Long-Term Care Insurance Market pp. 33-40

Denis Kessler

The IASB Discussion Paper on Insurance: A CFO Forum Perspective&ast pp. 41-53

Denis Duverne and Jacques Le Douit

IFRS and Solvency II: Global Exposure and Interaction – The Work of the IAIS pp. 54-59

Michel Flamée

Solvency II and the Work of CEIOPS pp. 60-65

Thomas Steffen

EditorialInsurance and Adaptation to Climate Change&ast pp. 66-70

Sophie Chemarin and Pierre Picard

Climate Change and the Insurance Sector pp. 71-90

Andrew Dlugolecki

Insurability of Climate Risks pp. 91-109

Arthur Charpentier

Preparing for Climate Change: Insurance and Small Business pp. 110-116

Kim Clemo

Role of Insurance in Reducing Flood Risk pp. 117-132

David Crichton

The Role of Insurers in Promoting Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change pp. 133-139

Robert E T Ward, Celine Herweijer, Nicola Patmore and Robert Muir-Wood

Climate Change: Impacts on Insurers and How They Can Help With Adaptation and Mitigation pp. 140-146

Trevor Maynard

Challenges of the Renewable Energy Industry Generate New Demands for Risk Advisory: How to Value an Insurance Package from a Financing Perspective? pp. 147-152

Emmanuel Leblanc

Extreme Events, Global Warming, and Insurance-Linked Securities: How to Trigger the “Tipping Point” pp. 153-176

Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Frederic Morlaye

Volume 32, issue 4, 2007

Editorial pp. 427-429

Geneviève Reday-Mulvey

Rational Pension Reform pp. 430-446

Axel Börsch-Supan

Risk Sharing and Stand-Alone Pension Schemes pp. 447-457

Lans Bovenberg

The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans pp. 458-482

David Blake, Andrew Cairns and Kevin Dowd

Pension Reform in Poland pp. 483-493

Aleksandra Wiktorow

Conditional Indexation in Defined Benefit Pension Plans in the Netherlands&ast pp. 494-515

Jacob Bikker and Peter Vlaar

Pension Changes in China and Opportunities for Insurance pp. 516-531

Qixiang Sun and Lingyan Suo

New Zealand's Experiment in Tax Neutrality for Retirement Saving pp. 532-552

Susan St John

Public Pensions and Labor Force Participation: The Case of Greece pp. 553-569

Milton Nektarios

Redistributive Impact of Differential Mortality in the French Pay-As-You-Go System pp. 570-582

Thomas Barnay

Performance Persistence of Spanish Pension Funds: The Best Winners and Losers Usually Repeat pp. 583-594

Luis Ferruz, Luis Vicente and Laura Andreu

Volume 32, issue 3, 2007

Finite Reinsurance: How does it Concern Supervisors? Some Efficiency Considerations in the Light of Prevailing Regulatory Aims&ast pp. 283-300

Sebastian von Dahlen

Cross-Border Exchange of Information and Cooperation Between Insurance Supervisors pp. 301-318

Peter Braumüller

An Update on the Use of Modern Financial Instruments in the Insurance Sector pp. 319-331

Ernst N Csiszar

Accounting and Solvency Convergence – Dream or Reality? pp. 332-344

Rob Esson and Peter Cooke

Bermuda Sidecars: Supervising Reinsurance Companies in Innovative Global Markets&ast pp. 345-363

Marcelo Ramella and Leila Madeiros

International Solvency Requirements – Towards more Risk-based Regimes pp. 364-381

Tom Karp

Group Diversification pp. 382-392

Philipp Keller

The Future of Insurance Supervision in the EU: National Authorities, Lead Supervisors or EU Supranational Institution? pp. 393-400

Jan Monkiewicz

Insuring the Low-Income Market: Challenges and Solutions for Commercial Insurers pp. 401-412

Craig Churchill

Towards a Global Approach to Reinsurance Regulation pp. 413-425

Ralph Vogelgesang and Matthias Kubicek

Volume 32, issue 2, 2007

Potential Drawbacks of Price-based Accounting in the Insurance Sector pp. 163-177

Andrea Beltratti and Giuseppe Corvino

Using External Data in Operational Risk pp. 178-189

Montserrat Guillen, Jim Gustafsson, Jens Perch Nielsen and Paul Pritchard

Analysing the Performance of the Pension Fund Industry with a Stochastic Frontier Model: A Case Study for Portugal pp. 190-210

Carlos Barros and Maria Teresa Garcia

What's Insurance to a Modern Economy? pp. 211-221

Patrick M Liedtke

The Theory of Catastrophe Risk Financing: A Look at the Instruments that Might Transform the Insurance Industry pp. 222-245

Stanley Mutenga and Sotiris K Staikouras

De Facto versus De Jure Bank–Insurance Ventures in the Greek Market pp. 246-263

Elena Kalotychou and Sotiris K Staikouras

The Impact of Corporate Governance Structure on the Efficiency Performance of Insurance Companies in Taiwan pp. 264-282

Jennifer L Wang, Vivian Jeng and Jin Lung Peng

Volume 32, issue 1, 2007

Changing Life Cycles and their Impact on Insurance pp. 1-10

Didier Blanchet

A “Tour d'horizon” on the Continental European Life Insurance Market&ast pp. 11-15

Rolf Dörig

Climate Change Impacts on Personal Insurance pp. 16-21

Gilles Benoist

Climate Change and the Global Insurance Industry pp. 22-28

Michael Hawker

Climate Change and the Global Insurance Industry: Impacts and Problems in Latin America pp. 29-34

Filomeno Mira Candel

Insurance and the Capital Markets&ast pp. 35-41

Jozef De Mey

Insurance, Finance, Solvency II and Financial Market Interaction pp. 42-45

Michael Butt

Insurance and the Fixed Income Capital Markets pp. 46-57

Y C Wu and David Soanes

Emerging from a Turbulent Marketplace pp. 58-61

Arthur F Ryan

IFRS for Insurance: CFO Forum Proposals pp. 62-74

Denis Duverne and Jacques Le Douit

The Finnish Pension Reform of 2005 pp. 75-94

Jukka Lassila and Tarmo Valkonen

The EU Reinsurance Directive pp. 95-104

Alastair M Evans

Some Novel Perspectives on Risk Classification pp. 105-132

R Guy Thomas

German Proposal for a Standard Approach for Solvency II pp. 133-150

Thomas Schubert and Gundula Grießmann

Integrated, Consolidated or Specialized Financial Markets Supervisors: Is there an Optimal Solution?&ast pp. 151-162

Jan Monkiewicz