Cyber Risk stellt eines der grossen neuen Risiken des 21. Jahrhunderts dar. Wir analysieren das Management dieser neuen Risikoart und nehmen eine Einschätzung zur Versicherbarkeit vor. Zu diesem Zweck begutachten wir die bestehende Literatur und nehmen Befragungen unter Kunden und Anbietern von...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a simulation-based approach for modeling multi-year non-life insurance risk in internal risk models. Strategic management in an insurance company requires a multi-year time horizon for economic decision making, for example, in the context of...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of both firm-specific and external factors on the risk taking of European insurance companies. The extent of risk taking is quantified through variations in stock prices and these are explained by firm-specific and external factors that proxy the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a simulation-based approach for modeling multi-year non-life insurance risk in internal risk models. Strategic management in an insurance company requires a multi-year time horizon for economic decision making, for example, in the context of...

In this paper, we investigate the German stock market with regard to negative stubvalues or parent company puzzles. These are situations where a firms marketvalue is less than the value of its ownership stake in a publicly traded subsidiary.According to MITCHELL/PULVINO/STAFFORD (2002), negative...

Paper I, "The Liability Regime of Insurance Pools and Its Impact on Pricing", addresses the pricing of insurance premiums for specific forms of risk sharing in the insurance industry. The implicit diversification effect from this risk sharing on the default risk is discussed in connection with a...