Introduction: Insurance and Its Economic Role -- Risks: Measurement, Perception, and Management -- Insurance Demand I: Decisions Under Risk Without Diversification Possibilities -- Insurance Demand II: Nontraditional Approaches to Decisions Under Risk -- Insurance Demand III: Decisions Under...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article applies a unique accruals measure to empirically test whether accruals quality affects the cost of capital for property–liability insurers. We utilize insurer loss reserve errors to accurately measure the quality of accruals. This measure, as...</p>

We test the hypothesis that practicing enterprise risk management (ERM) reduces firms’ cost of reducing risk. Adoption of ERM represents a radical paradigm shift from the traditional method of managing risks individually to managing risks collectively allowing ERM-adopting firms to better...