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SSRN Electronic Journal.
We reexamine life insurance and annuity pricing during the 2008 financial crisis. In contrast with previous research, we find that insurers sold policies at significantly elevated markups over their fundamental values during the crisis months and, mo
Autor:
Daniel Bauer, George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Banking & Finance. 125:106071
We revisit the foundations of economic capital and RAROC calculations prevalent in the insurance industry by extending the canonical static setting to a dynamic model with different ways of raising capital. The dynamic results suggest two important m
Autor:
Yiling Deng, George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Insurance. 85:959-991
This article studies the timing of state‐level tort reform enactments between 1971 and 2005. Using discrete‐time hazard models, we find the level of litigation activity—as measured by incurred liability insurance losses, the number of lawyers,
Autor:
George Zanjani, Michael R. Powers
Publikováno v:
Annual Review of Financial Economics. 5:201-223
We pursue two interrelated lines of thought. The first is a conceptual arc from (a) consideration of the unique characteristics of insurance risk, to (b) the quantification of this risk through risk measures, to (c) the application of these concepts
Autor:
Darius N. Lakdawalla, George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Insurance. 79:449-476
Catastrophe bonds feature full collateralization of the underlying risk transfer and thus abandon the reinsurance principle of economizing on collateral through diversification of risk transfer. Our analysis demonstrates that this feature places limi
Autor:
George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Insurance. 77:523-549
This article starts with primitive assumptions on preferences and risk. It then derives prices consistent with a social optimum within an insurance company and the consumer-level capital allocation implied therein. The allocation "adds up" to the tot
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We identify the effect of public guarantees on market discipline by exploiting the rich variation in U.S. state guarantees of property-liability insurer obligations. We find government guarantees significantly reduce the sensitivity of premium growth
Autor:
George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 97:973-983
This paper studies the association between regulation and the organizational form of new life insurers between 1900 and 1949. The mutual form was popular in states with low initial capital requirements for mutual companies and differentially higher r
Autor:
Darius N. Lakdawalla, George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Economics. 89:1891-1905
This paper investigates the rationale for public intervention in the terrorism insurance market. It argues that government subsidies for terror insurance have the effect of discouraging self-protection and limiting the negative externalities associat
Autor:
Shinichi Kamiya, George Zanjani
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We apply Moulin's notion of egalitarian equivalent cost sharing of a public good to the problem of insurance capitalization and capital allocation where the liability portfolio is fixed. We show that this approach yields overall capitalization and co