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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Reinsurance"”.
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Facultative reinsurance and the full reinsurance clause
The Full Reinsurance clause by which a reinsurer agrees to be bound by the same terms and conditions as the original policy and commits to follow the reinsured’s settlements is widely used in London Market facultative reinsurance contracts. In most disputes the outcome depends upon resolving the …
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Risk management in reinsurance
… of the problems which confront the insurance and reinsurance markets. The capacity of the different insurance corporations and the markets as a whole depends on the capacity of the reinsurance markets to provide the essential covers for risks which are accepted by the insurance companies. The need …
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Reinsurance and dividend management
… for an insurance company with the option of reinsurance. We set the problem as a stochastic control problem. We then solve the resulting second-order partial differential equation known as Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. We find out that the optimal retention level is linear with the …
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Investigating the importance of local reinsurance in preventing capital outflow within the Namibian market: A case study of Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation
… will investigates the importance of the local reinsurance industry in preventing capital outflow within the Namibian market through the insurance industry. The purpose of the study is to investigate the capital outflow that leaves the Namibian economy through insurance.Despite several efforts …
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Essays On The Applications Of Network Analysis To The Reinsurance Market
… two topics. Chapter 1 The Microstructure of the Reinsurance Network among US Property-Casualty Insurers and Its Effect on Insurers' Performance models the connectivity within the US property-casualty (P/C) reinsurance market as a network. It provides the first detailed empirical analysis of the …
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Reinsurance and financial performance of short term insurance companies in South Africa
… understand the relationship between the use of reinsurance contracts by insurers as a risk management tool and its impact on financial performance of short-term insurance companies in South Africa. It employs data on 79 short-term insurers (2007 - 2014) sourced from the insurance department of …
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The Determinants of the Financial Performance of Insurance Companies in Mauritius
… of firm size, leverage, gross written premiums, reinsurance, combined ratio, market concentration, foreign exchange, inflation and GDP growth on the profitability of insurers in both the life and the nonlife markets. Profitability was proxied by return on assets (ROA) and the underwriting profit …
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Essays in Internal Capital Markets in the U.S. Property-Liability Insurance Industry
… acquiring insurers and targets increase internal reinsurance and undergo more intragroup capital transactions after the M&A. The probit analysis provides evidence that insurers with low internal capital market utilization via reinsurance are more likely to engage in M&As as an acquirer or a …
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Efficiency, competition and risk-taking behaviour in the short-term insurance market in South Africa
… Firm size, product line diversification, reinsurance and leverage are identified as the significant determinants of efficiency and probability of operating at constant returns to scale. The effect of size was, however, found to be non-linear. Over the study period, the results of …
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Essays on the Economics of Private and Social Insurance
… provided, mandatory, actuarially fair, reinsurance for cyclone damage. In this scheme, the government reinsures the cyclone risk, while the private market covers the remaining idiosyncratic risk. I find that public reinsurance leads to a 21% decrease in home insurance premiums and an 11% …
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Rare Events in Stochastic Systems: Modeling, Simulation Design and Algorithm Analysis
… Systems Chapter 5: Stochastic Insurance-Reinsurance Networks: Modeling, Analysis and Efficient Monte Carlo
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Corporate Governance and Firm Efficiency in The Long-Term Insurance Market in South Africa
… independence, while controlling for firm size, reinsurance usage and leverage. The findings indicate that long-term insurers in South Africa operated at approximately 21% of their optimal capacity which suggests high levels of inefficiency in the provision of life insurance services. The results …
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The transfer of catastrophe event risk to the capital markets over the 1990s : an analysis of the process
… of capital available from the insurance and reinsurance industries to sustain catastrophe losses was both anticipated and feared. The capital markets readily offered alternative vehicles through which catastrophe risk began to be transferred, thus initiating a convergence with the insurance …
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Enhancing healthcare decisions using big data
… with mixed payment formulas, outliers, and reinsurance strategies on total spending. The first paper of the first chapter, joint with Ying Liu, Yuhan Chen, Sarah Ma, Maxim Slobodchikov, and Randall Ellis, first describes our use of web sources to collect school opening, closing, and vacation …
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An empirical analysis of determinants of financial performance of insurance companies in the United Kingdom
… are leverage, profitability, liquidity, size, reinsurance, growth, type of business and organisational form. Rating transition matrices and regression models are employed in this study. Rating transition analysis demonstrates a significant degree of rating changes, as reflected in the rating …
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Dependent risk modelling in (re)insurance and ruin
… be used to optimally set the parameters of an XL reinsurance treaty. Explicit expressions for the proposed risk and performance measures are derived and are used efficiently in numerical illustrations.
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Pelaksanaan akad tabarru’ pada asuransi syariah: Studi di Takaful Indonesia Cabang Malang
… about Tabarru’ In Islamic Insurance and Islamic Reinsurance as a tool to analyze. The method used in this study is qualitative research. The data collected are the primary data and secondary data collection using interviews and documentation. Data analysis methods used in this research is …
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An investigation into the relationship between a firm's working capital management and its profitability: A case study of the Namibian state-owned commercial institutions
… Development Bank of Namibia; Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation; Road Fund Administration; Environmental Investment fund; MVA, and Games Products Trust Fund. These institutions had a combined total of 125 finance employees countrywide and a questionnaire survey was administered to all of …
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Collective risk modelling of multivariate compound events: correlation of aggregate wind and precipitation in European extratropical cyclones
… year was chosen to align with the duration of reinsurance contracts, so risk managers can understand the relationship between the hazards that cause losses to their portfolios. The proxy aggregate severity indices are derived by tracking cyclones in reanalysis from 1980-2020. The sample …
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On the use of micro models for claims reversing based on aggregate data
… reserving issues when there is excess-of loss reinsurance. It provides a practical example as well as an alternative approach using recent developments in stochastic claims reserving.
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