This paper aims to analyze how the introduction and/or the changes of capital regulation affect bank stock prices, and how the introduction and/or the changes of accounting regulation affect bank stock prices. In this study, an agency model was used to describe how an introduction of the capital...

This paper estimates private life insurance and Kampo demand functions using household-level data provided by the Postal Services Research Institute. The results show that income, children, pension and knowledge factors have a significant effect on the decision as to whether each household...

<Para ID="Par1">The purpose of this research is to investigate the value of demand information in an insurance market under both demand and cost uncertainty, something not previously considered in the literature. Thus, the contribution of this research is to shed light on the characteristics of the value of...</para>

This research analyzes an insurance market in which compulsory and voluntary insurance coexist. In particular, we investigate whether compulsory insurance provides an incentive to purchase voluntary insurance. The main conclusions of this article are as follows. When only voluntary insurance...

This study aims to investigate the impact of privatization on the degree of cooperation and competition in a mixed duopoly market. In this market, one semipublic firm and one private firm determine the level of two types of effort: the cooperative effort made to enlarge the total market size and...

This study aims to investigate the impact of privatization on the degree of cooperation and competition in a mixed duopoly market. In this market, one semipublic firm and one private firm determine the level of two types of effort: the cooperative effort made to enlarge the total market size and...

: The purpose of this research is to investigate the insurer’s accountability effort associated with the sale of variable pension annuities. For the purpose of the study, a very simple model is built and two propositions are derived. The success probability of the investment exceeding a...

This study uses game theory to consider the impact of loss control (LC) and monitoring costs on insurers’ monitoring activities and investigate how the level of the insurance premium changes monitoring activities. The main results are as follows. First, a firm always undertakes LC when the LC...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether insurers could have a strong motivation for M&A in the future because they need to survive within the industry under oversaturated market conditions. Recently, Japanese non-life insurance markets, mainly the automobile insurance market,...