This paper proposes bonus-malus systems for fleets of vehicles, by using the individual characteristics of both the vehicles and the carriers. Bonus-malus coefficients are computed from the history of claims or from the history of safety offences of the carriers and the drivers...

Um die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung zu entlasten, wurde mit dem Altersvermögensgesetz (AVmG) zum 01.01.2002 in Deutschland die staatlich geförderte kapitalgedeckte private und betriebliche Altersvorsorge erheblich in ihrem Umfang erweitert. Im Rahmen der privaten Altersvorsorge stellen...

Risk management is now present in many economic sectors. This paper investigates the role of risk management in creating value for financial institutions by analyzing U.S. property-liability insurers. Property-liability insurers are financial intermediaries whose primary role in the economy is...

On 11 March 2015, SUERF jointly organised a conference with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Austrian Society for Bank Research (Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft - BWG). The present SUERF Study 2015/2 includes a selection of papers based on the authors' contributions to the Vienna...