Skewed distributions in finance and actuarial science: a review

C Adcock, M Eling, N Loperfido - The European Journal of Finance, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
That the returns on financial assets and insurance claims are not well described by the
multivariate normal distribution is generally acknowledged in the literature. This paper …

Analysis and valuation of insurance companies

D Nissim - CE| ASA (Center for Excellence in Accounting and …, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
During 2008 and 2009, the insurance industry experienced unprecedented volatility. The
large swings in insurers' market valuations, and the significant role that financial reporting …

Enterprise risk management and the cost of capital

TR Berry‐Stölzle, J Xu - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a process that manages all risks in an integrated,
holistic fashion by controlling and coordinating any offsetting risks across the enterprise …

Insurability of pandemic risks

H Gründl, D Guxha, A Kartasheva… - Journal of Risk and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes the scope of the private market for pandemic insurance. We develop a
framework that explains theoretically how the equilibrium price of pandemic insurance …

Risk management and the cost of equity: evidence from the United Kingdom's non-life insurance market

V Upreti, M Adams, Y Jia - The European Journal of Finance, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We investigate the effect of risk management (reinsurance) on the corporate cost of equity
using panel data drawn from the United Kingdom's (UK) non-life insurance industry. Our …

Estimating the cost of equity capital for insurance firms with multiperiod asset pricing models

A Barinov, J Xu, SW Pottier - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research on insurer cost of equity (COE) focuses on single‐period asset pricing
models. In reality, however, investment and consumption decisions are made over multiple …

Do US insurance firms offer the “wrong” incentives to their executives?

A Milidonis, K Stathopoulos - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the relation between executive compensation and market‐implied default risk
for listed insurance firms from 1992 to 2007. Shareholders are expected to encourage …

The cross-section of expected stock returns in the property/liability insurance industry

SB Ammar, M Eling, A Milidonis - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
We conduct a comprehensive asset pricing analysis for the US property/liability insurance
industry using monthly data from 1988 to 2015. We find that state-of-the-art models such as …

Determining the level of competitiveness and financial capacity of the insurance company

G Azarenkova, O Golovko, K Piddubna… - European Journal of …, 2017 - ceeol.com
In the conditions of economic and political in stability there is a necessity of analysis the
criteria of financialpotential and competitiveness in a country. A role of financial potential …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic Risk and Cross Section of Equity Returns: Evidence from Nepalese Insurance Sector

DD Pathak, J Pokharel - Management Dynamics, 2023 - researchgate.net
This research analyzes the impact of firm-specific characteristics on the crosssection of
equity returns of insurance companies in Nepal. For this purpose, the study used 22 …