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- Banks as Insurance Referral Agents? The Convergence of Financial Services: Evidence from the Title Insurance Industry
- The purpose of this paper is to offer a glimpse into the potential industrial organization of the property casualty insurance (P&C) market if banks continue to penetrate it at current rates. To do so, the paper studies an insurance market where banks are already integral in distribution: Title insurance. They...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- The Role of Country and the Effectiveness of Compensation Strategies in Technology-Intensive Firms
- The purpose of this study was to examine the role of country and technological intensity in the choice of compensation policies, and the influence of such policies on market performance and turnover in high and low technological intensity firms. The paper shows that country plays a more predominant role than...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Is the Demand for Corporate Insurance a Habit? Evidence From Directors' and Officers' Insurance
- The contention in this paper is that corporate insurance purchases are driven by habit rather than an optimal approach to corporate risk management. Because public access to corporate insurance purchases and risk management strategies is limited at best, this paper examines a particular aspect of the corporate demand for insurance...
- White papers 2003-07-09
- Directors' and Officers' Insurance and Shareholders' Protection
- Corporate directors are liable for the corporation's actions as well as their own. As a result, directors often require protection so that their own personal wealth is not expropriated in the event of a good faith error. There are three ways to protect a director's wealth: Corporate indemnification plans, Limited...
- White papers 2003-10-22
- The Demand for Directors'and Officers' Insurance in Canada
- This paper looks at the insurance demand of a firm's directors and officers using a sample of Canadian corporations excluding firms from the financial services and Mining sectors from 1993-1999. More to the point, the paper provides information about the demand for director's and officer's insurance. The results suggest that...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Is the Demand for Corporate Insurance a Habit? Evidence of Organizational Inertia From Directors' and Officers' Insurance
- Of the many fundamental questions left unanswered in finance, one relates to corporate risk management practices. The paper shows that corporate insurance purchases are driven by habit rather than an optimal approach to corporate risk management. Because public access to corporate insurance purchases and risk management strategies is limited at...
- White papers 2004-05-26
- Financial Asset Returns, Market Timing, and Volatility Dynamics
- This article considers three sets of phenomena that feature prominently and separately in the financial economics literature: conditional mean dependence or lack thereof in asset returns, dependence and hence forecastability in asset return signs with implications for market timing, and dependence and hence forecastability in asset return volatilities. It shows...
- White papers 2002-01-02
- Corporate Strategies for Managing Environmental Risk
- For at least two decades, in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez and Bhopal disasters, corporations have been facing mounting external and internal pressure to manage environmental resources and risks effectively. To address the queries and concerns of managers, corporate boards and other stakeholders, codified management, audit and reporting schemes...
- White papers 2004-09-01
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