We study the optimal insurance design problem. This is a risk sharing problem between an insured and an insurer. The main novelty in this paper is that we study this optimization problem under a risk-adjusted premium calculation principle for the insurance cover. This risk-adjusted premium calculation principle uses the cost-of-capital approach as it is suggested (and used) by the regulator and...

Joint life insurance policies can be issued to married couples so that the insurance payoff is due at the time of the first death of a spouse (joint-life policy) or the second death of a spouse (last survivor policy). In recent years, a certain attention in the actuarial industry has been attracted to the latter. These policies are generally used by older couples for estate tax purposes and car...

the main objective of this study is to find out if organizational characteristics intervene in the relationship between crm and organizational performance in the nigerian insurance industry. relevant literature was reviewed and a model consisting of fourteen variables was conceptualized and tested by means of empirical data collected through a questionnaire. a total of one hundred and eighty (1...

The goal of this article is to test whether the threat of regulating (or of more stringent regulation of) automobile liability insurance as portrayed in the popular and industry press induces insurers to change the way they price their policies. More to the point, using quarterly state data from 1984 to 1993, the author attempts to determine whether insurance companies reduced premium increases...

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the gender wage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown that in three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insurance industry) the unexplained and potentially discriminatory gender wage differential is substantially larger in the primary than in the...

The purpose of this study is to investigate and find out the performance of Turkish insurance companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and to analyze the performance of the insurance companies by using variance analysis, ratios and cash flow analysis. The insurance companies in the European Union have close contact with the European banking industry through a cross-selling process....

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper presents a vertical and horizontal product differentiation model that explains price dispersion among different kinds of health care insurance firms. Our model shows large insurance firms engaging in price competition with small mutual organizations that serve only a local area and charge lower premiums. We found that, although the market allows the entry of an ...

This stuely aflempts to measure the prodllctivi~y of Ihe life insurance inelustry by employing the non-parametric Malmquist Index approach. The ]inding shows that despite the productivity growth in the insurance industry, it is relatively loll' compared to the real economic growth experienced by Malaysia. Like the mallufacllfring sectol; thefurure growth of this indusll~y 1V0uld depend on its a...