Financial solvency regulation of the U.S. insurance industry occurs at the state level, and is led by insurance commissioners. Insurance commissioners wield significant discretion over the regulatory process, but their incentives may be affected by post-term job opportunities ("…
Industry 4.0 has spread globally since its inception in 2011, now encompassing many sectors, including its diffusion in the field of financial services. By combining information technology and automation, it is now canvassing the insurance sector, which is in dire need of digita…
This book examines the challenges for the life insurance sector in Europe arising from new technologies, socio-cultural and demographic trends, and the financial crisis. It presents theoretical and applied research in all areas related to life insurance products and markets, and…
Since the dawn of the European Union, insurance and banking undertakings claimed to be subject to a special status vis-à-vis the application of EU competition law, due to the quasi social nature of the services they provide. Within the financial services industry, anti-trust con…
Insurance and Risk Mnanagement is the leading publication on this complex area directed at students, financial planners, insurance professionals and the general public in Australia and New Zealand.
Insurance and Risk Management is the leading publication on this complex area directed at students, financial planners, insurance professionals and the general public in Australia and New Zealand.
-- Versicherungswirtschaftslehre -- Tristan Nguyen und Frank Romeike präsentieren in ihrem Buch sowohl die versicherungsspezifischen als auch die allgemeinen Felder der Betriebswirtschaftslehre für die Assekuranz. In diesem Kontext steht das Versicherungsunternehmen als Produzen…
Das Buch vermittelt einen grundlegenden, raschen und praktischen Einstieg in die Lebensversicherungsmathematik. Ein kurzer Exkurs in die Bewertung von sicheren Zahlungsströmen stellt das nötige Handwerkszeug bereit. Das Kernstück bilden die Kapitel zu den Prämien und zu den Deck…
A textbook of insurance broking
The US healthcare system faces numerous challenges. In this dissertation I study issues of access to care, healthcare costs, and responses to the opioid epidemic. I take an applied economic approach, using causal inference methods to examine the effects of recent policies and ch…
Low demand for index insurance in several recent pilot programs has created a puzzle for development economists and policy makers concerned with enhancing farmers risk management capacity in low-income economies. Chapter 1 contributes to the resolution of this puzzle by providin…
Migration is often thought of as a risky endeavor in which a migrant trades a known low return for an unknown but potentially higher return. However, migration has been empirically linked to insurance mechanisms through remittances. Chapter 1 unifies the risk-taking and insuranc…
This thesis theoretically and empirically analyzes the nature and consequences of interactions between family members. The first chapter tests whether children's human capital accumulation was significantly affected by earnings shocks to their nonresident kin in the context of t…
In my dissertation first I first review the role of social institutions (e.g. social networks, civic engagement, voluntary activities, trust etc.) in providing missing public goods in various contexts across different countries. Among developing countries, Bangladesh faces very …