Viele Akteure sind an den aktuellen politischen Diskussionen (FIDLEG, Revision VVG) beteiligt, wie Konsumenten im Versicherungsbereich wirksam und effizient geschützt werden können. Die Anspruchsgruppe, die im Zentrum der Diskussionen steht, wurde bisher jedoch wenig untersucht: Wie stehen...

An important new dimension of the regulatory environment in banking and insurance is the explicit reliance on market discipline. Expectation: A transparent market will require less overt intervention by regulators (market participants themselves force appropriate behavior)...

This paper demonstrates the existence of adverse selection in the group insurance market with no individual choice. We provide evidence against the “conventional wisdom” that group insurance mitigates adverse selection because of the mixture of high risks and low risks. We show, however,...

This article examines the determinants of cyber insurance participation, the amount of coverage offered, and the performance of current cyber insurers. Our results support the competitive advantage hypothesis, are in line with the coordinated risk management hypothesis, but only partially...

This paper analyzes price competition in the German motor insurance market since 1994 and looks for evidence to back up a claim frequently found in the trade literature—that there have been two recent price wars in this industry, the first in 1996–1999, the second in 2005–2006. In a first...

This article provides an overview and comparison of risk-based capital (RBC) requirements as they currently exist in the United States, the European Union, Switzerland, and New Zealand. These four systems are representative of different ways capital standards are implemented around the globe....