This study is intended to assess the introduction of increased capitalization requirements in Ukrainian insurance firms. To do so, the paper employs up-to-date frontier efficiency analysis. The analysis suggests that an increase in size occurs not only because of the regulator’s requirements,...

To limit price variations across consumers, the ACA requires that an insurance plan sold on the Health Insurance Marketplaces be uniformly priced across multiple counties within a geographic rating area. However, insurers’ service areas are not regulated by the ACA which could result in...

Successive crises in the early twenty-first century prompted regulators around the world to ask financial institutions to implement a series of regulations. These measures aimed to increase transparency, improve consumer and investor protection, restructure financial capital, stabilize insurance...