Property-Liability Insurers Recapitalization: An Event Study

Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital for Property-Liability Insurers

The Wharton Financial Institutions Center provides a multidisciplinary research approach to the problems and opportunities facing the financial services industry in its search for competitive excellence. The Center's research focuses on the issues related to managing risk at the firm level as well as ways to improve productivity and performance. The Center fosters the development of a community...

Solvency II for property-casualty insurers (II)

be geared to modern requirements. Unlike the present solvency regime, Solvency II is designed to reflect a prospective and risk-oriented economic view. It will be based on a total balance sheet approach and harmonised with accounting rules and regulations. Assets and liabilities will consistently be recognised at market values. In principle, IFRS provisions can be used as a basis for valuing th...

International Property-liability Insurance Consumption

During the 1980s and early 1990s, the world insurance market grew substantially. World insurance premiums in 1993 accounted for about 8 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 4 percent in 1984. This article explains a substantial proportion of the variation in propertyliability insurance consumption across countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

Efficient Recapitalization

We analyze government interventions to recapitalize a banking sector that restricts lending to firms because of debt overhang. We find that the efficient recapitalization program injects capital against preferred stock plus warrants and conditions implementation on sufficient bank participation. Preferred stock plus warrants reduces opportunistic participation by banks that do not require recap...

Franchisor Environmental Liability for Previously Contaminated Property