The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance

The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance
Title The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance PDF eBook
Author David F. Bradford
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 158
Release 1998-04-28
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780226070261

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The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance presents new research and findings on key aspects of the economics of the property-casualty insurance industry. The volume explores the industrial organization, regulation, financing, and taxation of this business. The first paper, on external financing and insurance cycles, contains a wealth of information on trends and patterns in the industry's financial structure. The last essay, which compares performance of stock and mutual insurance companies, takes a fresh look at the way a company's organizational structure affects its responses to different economic situations. Two papers focus on rate regulation in the auto insurance industry, and provide broad overviews of the structure and economics of the insurance industry as a whole. Also addressed are the system of regulating insurance companies in the United States, who insures the insurers, and the effects of tax law changes in the 1980s on the prices of insurance policies.

Insurance Company Failures

Insurance Company Failures
Title Insurance Company Failures PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher
Pages 444
Release 1992
Genre Business & Economics
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Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness

Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness
Title Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness PDF eBook
Author Nigel Davies
Publisher International Monetary Fund
Pages 45
Release 2003-07-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1451856008

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This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by life insurers appears to be the key systemic vulnerability. Building on this experience and the experience gained under the FSAP, the paper proposes key indicators that should be compiled and used for surveillance of financial soundness of insurance companies and the insurance sector as a whole.

Deadly Spin

Deadly Spin
Title Deadly Spin PDF eBook
Author Wendell Potter
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 289
Release 2010-11-09
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1608193500

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That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance corporation because he could no longer abide the routine practices of the insurance industry, policies that amounted to a death sentence for thousands of Americans every year. In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes of the insurance industry to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare expenditures actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. With the unique vantage of both a whistleblower and a high-powered former insider, Potter moves beyond the healthcare crisis to show how public relations works, and how it has come to play a massive, often insidious role in our political process-and our lives. This important and timely book tells Potter's remarkable personal story, but its larger goal is to explain how people like Potter, before his change of heart, can get the public to think and act in ways that benefit big corporations-and the Wall Street money managers who own them.

Causes and Implications of Insurance Company Failures

Causes and Implications of Insurance Company Failures
Title Causes and Implications of Insurance Company Failures PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher
Pages 426
Release 1992
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Oversight Hearing on the Effect on Plan Participants of Insurance Company Failures

Oversight Hearing on the Effect on Plan Participants of Insurance Company Failures
Title Oversight Hearing on the Effect on Plan Participants of Insurance Company Failures PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher
Pages 114
Release 1992
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities

The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
Title The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities PDF eBook
Author Giovanni Dosi
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 404
Release 2001-11-29
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0191530220

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In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities–how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in a competitive environment. Dosi is the author and editor of numerous books including Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness (OUP, 1998). He is also one of the editors of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change published by Oxford University Press. Nelson and Winter are recognized as leading proponents of evolutionary perspectives in economics and management. The book includes chapters from David Teece, Keith Pavitt, Benjamin Coriat, and Richard Florida amongst others.