Select Products are equity-linked life insurances with investment guarantee in the German market which – in contrast to typical guaranteed equity-linked products – are constructed by using a traditional life insurance contract and suitably leveraging the annual surplus distribution. In this...

Innovation, which is defined as the "beating heart of the economy of the twenty-first century", is one of the key elements of economic policy and competitiveness. Together with entrepreneurship creates a set of factors conducive to the economic development. Innovations are also challenging for...

One of the most significant economic developments of the past decade has been the development of innovative risk-financing techniques in the insurance industry. Innovation has been driven by the increase in the frequency and severity of catastrophic losses, capital management needs in the life...

We demonstrate how innovations in insurance risk classification can lead to adverse selection, or cream skimming, against insurers that are slow to adopt such pricing innovations. Using a model in which insurers with insufficient pricing data cannot differentiate between low‐ and high‐risk...