COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster assistance programs are developed after the pandemic has already started. There is now an opportunity to design and implement effective and efficient solutions to manage the...

We analyze how pandemic business interruption coverage can be put in place by building on capitalization mechanisms. The pandemic risk cannot be mutualized since it affects simultaneously a large number of businesses, and furthermore, it has a systemic nature because it goes along with a severe...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to limit the spread of the disease have significantly disrupted economic activity in countries around the world, resulting in significant business interruption losses. The vast majority of these losses are likely to be absorbed by policyholders as,...

We investigate how internal labor markets (ILMs) affect labor adjustments and performance in business groups. We show that group-affiliated units faced with positive shocks to growth opportunities rely on the ILM to ensure swift hiring, especially of managers and other high-skilled workers. A...

We present novel empirical evidence on the contractually mandated purchase of insurance by corporate creditors. In a large sample of private credit agreements of publicly-traded firms, we find that nearly all agreements contain at least a boilerplate provision requiring the borrower to purchase...

We investigate how Internal Labor Markets (ILMs) allow organizations to accommodate shocks calling for costly labor adjustments. Using data on workers' mobility within French business groups, we find that adverse shocks affecting affiliated firms boost the proportion of workers redeployed to...

Purpose: Recent years have witness the pervasive supply disruptions and their impacts on supply chain performance. It is significant for enterprises to adopt comprehensive measures to cope with supply disruptions. The purpose of this study is to investigate how BI insurance make up the shortage...

With the onslaught of tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods in recent years, business interruption losses have been staggering. Many businesses do not survive such catastrophes. Even business owners that purchased business interruption insurance, which is intended to ensure that a business’s...

Defining global supply chain and enterprise risk management -- Global risk management -- Global trade risks -- Supply chain and logistics -- International insurance and global risk management -- Structuring a global supply chain risk management best practice strategy -- Appendix

D&O-Versicherung und Eigenschadendeckung -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Gegenstand der Arbeit -- 1 Einführung in die D&O-Versicherung -- 1.1 Geschichte der D&O-Versicherung -- 1.2 Gegenstand der Versicherung -- 1.2.1 Side A -- 1.2.2 Side B -- 1.2.3 Side C -- 1.3 Abgrenzungsfragen -- 1.3.1...

The purpose of the paper is to provide some support to the thesis that insurance may reduce the cost of capital in a company by influencing both the cost of capital components and the need for rising capital. The problem is here perceived from two perspectives the classical concept related to...

We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...

In a paper in this journal, Schnabel and Roumi (1989) assert that if uninsured debt is risky, a levered firm takes a casualty insurance with a positive safety loading if, and only if, the amount of debt is sufficiently high. This note shows that, in marked contrast to this assertion, the correct...

Cyber Risk stellt eines der grossen neuen Risiken des 21. Jahrhunderts dar. Wir analysieren das Management dieser neuen Risikoart und nehmen eine Einschätzung zur Versicherbarkeit vor. Zu diesem Zweck begutachten wir die bestehende Literatur und nehmen Befragungen unter Kunden und Anbietern von...

[...] Die Arbeit identifiziert technische und ökonomische Risiken in Grid-Computing-Systemen und untersucht sie hinsichtlich ihrer Versicherbarkeit. Anforderungen an die Versicherung für Grid-Systeme werden abgeleitet und ein Prämienberechnungsmodell aus der Kraftfahrzeugversicherung...

In Unternehmen hat sich der Einsatz von rechenintensiver Informationstechnologie (IT) bereits für den Geschäftsbetrieb als unverzichtbar erwiesen, um Geschäftsprozesse besser auszurichten und neue Geschäftslösungen mit größerer Flexibilität und Geschwindigkeit bereitzustellen. Dieser...

The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm's risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold to...

The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm's risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold to...

The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm’s risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold...