This study examines the geographical spillover of the state-level average homeowners insurance cost for 48 US contiguous states. We estimate a panel spatial Durbin model with state and year fixed effect for data between 2001 and 2018. We found a significant positive spillover of average...

In response to private insurers' postwar withdrawal from urban neighborhoods, roughly half of US states developed programs in the late 1960s that offered residual property insurance to property owners denied in the private market. These plans, known as Fair Access to Insurance Requirements...

IFRS 17 introduces the concept of a risk adjustment that compensates insurers for the uncertainty about the amount and timing of the cash flows that arise from non-financial risks. The method for its calculation is not prescribed and several options are emerging, including value at risk and cost...

Homeowners need easily understandable information about insurance policies in order to evaluate their current coverage and to shop effectively for insurance. But insurance is the only product for which consumers don’t know what they are buying before they buy it. Insurance companies almost...

In this paper, we developed a Shiny-based application called AutoReserve. This application serves as a tool used for a variety of types of loss reserving. The primary target audience of the app is personal auto actuaries, who are professionals in the insurance industry specializing in assessing...

This report analyzes the difference between mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of target insurers in the US life and non-life insurance sectors. We first document M&A transactions in the US insurance market between 1990 and 2022 and select the M&A transactions related to US target insurers. We then...