Während der vergangenen zehn Jahre wurde Solvency II, das neue regulatorische Rahmenwerk für Versicherungsunternehmen, von der Europäischen Union (EU) ausgearbeitet. Der erste Teil dieser Dissertation umfasst zwei Artikel, welche das Marktrisikomodul des neuen Aufsichtssystems behandeln. Ziel...

Regulators are currently developing group-wide capital standards that are intended to enable the effective monitoring of insurance groups. Some jurisdictions are taking steps toward models with a focus on the groups' consolidated balance sheets, while other models focus on the interrelations of...

Against the background of seriously underfunded infrastructure and the risk of a resulting lower competitiveness of the European economic area, the European Commission aims to incentivize private and institutional investments in infrastructure, thereby laying one main focus on pension funds and...

In 2017, insurers in the European Union disclosed their Solvency and Financial Condition Reports (SFCRs) according to the third pillar of Solvency II for the first time. The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze market reactions to the first SFCRs for all publicly listed insurers in the...