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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Property liability insurance"”.
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Dynamic Financial Analysis of Property-Liability Insurance Companies
… techniques to the dynamic financial modeling of property-liability (P-L) insurance companies. Dynamic financial analysis (DFA)--a relatively new concept in the P-L industry--attempts to analyze the underwriting and financial operations of an insurance company as an integrated whole. The objective …
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An Empirical Evaluation of Property-Liability Insurance Financial Ratemaking Models
… developed for rate regulation and ratemaking of property-liability insurers over the past fifteen to twenty years. Empirical model estimates of underwriting profit margins for twenty-three individual stock insurance companies are compared with actual underwriting results over the 1973-1989 …
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Essays in Internal Capital Markets in the U.S. Property-Liability Insurance Industry
… market utilization following M&As in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry during the period 2000-2015. The results suggest that both acquiring insurers and targets increase internal reinsurance and undergo more intragroup capital transactions after the M&A. The probit analysis …
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Interest Rates and Cyclical Underwriting Profits in the Property-Liability Insurance Industry: An Equilibrium Approach
Underwriting profits in the property-liability insurance industry have been cyclical for many decades. The insurance industry refers to this behavior as the underwriting profit cycle. This study explains the cycle within the framework of both the insurance and capital markets, using an equilibrium …
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The Development and Pretest of a Methodology to Investigate The Competitive Status of Markets for Property-Liability Insurance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:19:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212249.pdf: 6331061 bytes, checksum: 1a08ba6a4329f0e63d911508ae5a42a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Effects of Ownership Pattern on Capital Structure: A Special Case of Stock and Mutual Property Liability Insurance Firms (Solvency, Liquidity)
First, the situation in an idealized world without taxes is discussed. It is shown that in the absence of monitoring, both stock and mutual firms will minimize equity. When monitoring is allowed, firms may minimize or maximize equity depending on the circumstances. Under certain other conditions …
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Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management
The insurance industry manages a large amount of financial assets. In recent years, a growing number of investment companies are providing insurance asset management solutions, and the use of external asset management by the insurance industry is increasing over time. Therefore, understanding …
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An Economic Theory of Insurance Regulation
… of regulatory behavior are tested on the property-liability insurance industry through the use of a simultaneous equations system. Insurance profitability and regulation are the endogenous variables in the system. Regulation is measured both as the type of rate regulatory law in effect and …
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The Effects of Multifactor Term Structure Models on the Valuation of Insurance
… of interest rate movements when valuing insurance. Movements in interest rates affect the present value of both property-liability and life insurance obligations. One approach to understanding the amount of interest rate risk inherent to insurers is to perform a financial analysis that …
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Three Essays On Diversification Strategy, Diversification Performance, And Corporate Misconduct
… strategy and firm performance in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. Prior literature has evaluated the effect of total diversification on insurer performance; however, there is an absence of evidence on the effect of diversification strategy for multi-line insurers. Theory …