This study aims to understand how InsurTech has developed in Korea. To achieve this, we collected InsurTech-related news articles published in the Korean media over the past eight years. Using a relatedness analysis based on the TopicRank algorithm, a text mining technique, we extracted the top...

Global events and geopolitical upheavals, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the US-China trade conflict and Russia-Ukraine war, have propelled the world towards geoeconomic fragmentation. This trend is exemplified by shifts away from free trade and globally integrated supply chains in favour of...

We argue that capital misallocation arises endogenously due to incomplete consumption insurance. We model risk-averse entrepreneurs with heterogeneous productivity who face idiosyncratic output shocks and choose how much capital to rent before uncertainty unfolds. We show that incomplete markets...

This study examines the geographical spillover of the state-level average homeowners insurance cost for 48 US contiguous states. We estimate a panel spatial Durbin model with state and year fixed effect for data between 2001 and 2018. We found a significant positive spillover of average...

This paper empirically explores the early development of insurance projects in the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry, which is based on disruptive technologies like blockchain and smart contracts. A brief history of DeFi is narrated stressing four risks of DeFi (volatility risk, cyberattack...

Der Investitionsbedarf für die Transformation zu einer klimaneutralen Wirtschaft in Europa wird von der Europäischen Kommission in der Basisvariante auf jährlich 7% bis 8% des Bruttoinlandsproduktes geschätzt. Die Versicherungswirtschaft kann die Transformation in erster Linie durch eine...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to report on how the barriers that prevent or hinder the applicability of artificial intelligence (AI) impact its use in an insurance company. Design/methodology/approach - Through bibliographic research, this paper maps the literature to identify the...

Although the relationship between ESG performance and firm performance has been the subject of several studies, the nonlinear relationship between ESG performance and the corporate performance of insurance companies remains less explored, specifically in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey...

We propose a method for calibrating high-dimensional parameters in the Hull-White one-factor model using market prices of swaptions, aimed at generating mark-to-market interest rate scenarios in the Korean insurance industry. Our approach integrates a trust region-based Bayesian optimization...

Recently, advocacy for gender diversity in corporate governance has intensified, following the hypothesis that heterogeneous boards can optimize management processes and improve financial performance. Existing literature primarily focuses on the banking or financial industry, with limited...

We study the role of life insurers in the transmission of US monetary policy. Insurers have uniquely long-term liabilities. We posit that they face a trade-off between matching liability duration exposure by investing in long-term government debt and earning higher yields by shifting to...

Extreme weather has profoundly affected countries across South America (SA), given the importance of the agricultural sector for the economies. However, these effects have not yet been properly measured. In our study, we construct a unique dataset of high-frequency satellite data on temperature,...

This supplement contains auxiliary technical results and proofs omitted from Bloedel, Krishna, and Leukhina (2025) (henceforth BKL) and its Supplemental Appendix (henceforth SA). First, Section I proves parts (a)–(c) and (e)–(f) of Theorem 3 from Appendix B.1 of BKL. (Part (d) of Theorem 3...