This paper documents that managers having large private benefits of control tend to purchase more insurance to reduce their exposure to the firm's unsystematic risk. Private benefits of control are estimated as the difference between the price of the stock and an equivalent synthetic stock (constructed with options). Our empirical analysis controls for the simultaneity between the choice of the...

This paper considers the problem of optimal investment, consumption and life insurance acquisition for a wage earner who has CRRA (constant relative risk aversion) preferences. The market model is complete, continuous, the uncertainty is driven by Brownian motion and the stock price has mean reverting drift. The problem is solved by dynamic programming approach and the HJB equation is shown to ...

This paper aims at measuring reputational effects for financial institutions by examining a firm’s stock price reaction to the announcement of particular operational loss events such as internal frauds. We conduct at this purpose an event study analysis of the impact of operational loss events on the market values of banks and insurance companies, using the OpVar database (OpData dataset suppli...

We introduce explicitly the effort as a choice variable in a continuous time utility maximisation framework of an executive who is partly compensated with stock options. We solve the model in the case where the executive is not allowed to trade in the company’s stock but is able to achieve a partial insurance through trading in a correlated market portfolio. We define the executive’s value of t...

BACKGROUND The debate on US healthcare reform has largely focused on the introduction of a public health plan option. While supporters stress various beneficial effects that would arise from increased competition in the health insurance market, opponents often contend that a public plan would drive insurers out of the market and potentially lead to the 'collapse' of the private health insurance...

Economic environments have a profound effect on the growth of the insurance industry. History has shown that, although the performance of the insurance industry is closely linked to economic conditions, the life business has been able to survive in different economic environments. In Malaysia, the performance of the insurance industry in 1998 was affected by an economic downturn. The insurance ...

Stock price crash risk has a significant impact on investors, creditors, managers, and shareholders, so the prediction of this phenomenon is a very important issue in investment and risk management decisions. This research investigates the effect of business strategy and stock price synchronicity on stock price crash risk. Following Bentley et al.[2], composite strategy score has been used to ...

generally, high oil prices slow economic growth, cause inflationary pressures and creates global imbalances. in addition, oil price volatility increase uncertainty and restrain the much-needed investment in the capital market. thus, this paper applies the augmented dickey fuller and johansen co-integration tests in which the effect of oil price volatility, crude oil price and stock price is ana...

study of the changes in the stock price in tehran stock exchange is of great importance. this is because of its application in forecasting the stock price in the stock exchange. the aim of this article is to investigate the forces and mechanisms that cause the dramatic changes in stock price and the formation of chaotic trend. to test whether the chaotic trend in the tehran stock exchange exist...