National culture and risk-taking: Evidence from the insurance industry

C Gaganis, I Hasan, P Papadimitri, M Tasiou - Journal of Business …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The gravity of insurance within the financial sector is constantly increasing. Reasonably,
after the events of the recent financial turmoil, the domain of research that examines the …

Corporate governance and risk taking: Evidence from the UK and German insurance markets

M Eling, SD Marek - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the impact of factors related to corporate governance (ie, compensation,
monitoring, and ownership structure) on risk taking in the insurance industry. We measure …

Why do some insurers become systemically relevant?

GNF Weiß, J Mühlnickel - Journal of Financial Stability, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Are some insurers relevant for the stability of the financial system? And if yes, what firm
fundamentals and aspects of insurers' business models cause them to destabilize an entire …

[HTML][HTML] Effects from ESG scores on P&C insurance companies

S Bressan - Sustainability, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Insurers act as institutional investors and underwriters of risk. Therefore, improving their
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance is important for the transmission …

CEO compensation and firm performance in the insurance industry

R Bhuyan, D Butchey, J Haar, B Talukdar - Managerial Finance, 2022‏ - emerald.com
Purpose We investigate the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO)
compensation and a firm's financial performance in the insurance industry to determine CEO …

Consolidation and systemic risk in the international insurance industry

J Mühlnickel, GNF Weiß - Journal of Financial Stability, 2015‏ - Elsevier
This paper is the first to examine the effects of consolidation in the international insurance
industry on the acquirers' contribution to systemic risk. We analyze a sample of 394 …

Does corporate governance differ by sector? An analysis under good practice criteria. The case of Spain

J Corral-Lage, A Garayeta, E Trigo, JI De la Peña - PloS one, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
The aim of this paper is to analyse how the factors remuneration, supervision and board
structure influence the good corporate governance of companies in the Spanish Continuous …

CEO inside debt and risk taking: Evidence from property–liability insurance firms

A Milidonis, T Nishikawa, J Shim - Journal of Risk and …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
We examine the incentive effects of CEO inside debt holdings (pensions and deferred
compensation) on risk taking using the sample of US publicly traded property–liability …

The real effects of bank taxation: Evidence for corporate financing and investment

AL Sobiech, DK Chronopoulos, JOS Wilson - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This paper examines how bank taxation affects the financing decisions and investment
activities of corporates. Exploiting exogenous tax variation at the bank level, we show that …

Corporate Governance in the European insurance industry

O Ricci - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Corporate scandals at the beginning of the 2000s and the recent global financial crisis have
renewed the attention of academics, regulators and practitioners to agency problems and …