Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry

dc.contributor.author	Krämer, Walter	de
dc.contributor.author	Schich, Sebastian	de
dc.date.accessioned	2005-03-08T15:24:10Z
dc.date.available	2005-03-08T15:24:10Z
dc.date.issued	2005	de
dc.description.abstract	We investigate the effect of the 20 largest – in terms of insured losses – man-made or natural disasters on the insurance industry. We show via an event study that insurance markets worldwide are quite resilient to unexpected losses to capital and are even outperforming the general market subsequent to great disasters.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2003/20162
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-15705
dc.language.iso	en	de
dc.publisher	Universität Dortmund	de
dc.subject	disaster	en
dc.subject	insurance industry	en
dc.subject	event-study	en
dc.subject.ddc	310	de
dc.title	Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry	en
dc.type	Text	de
dc.type.publicationtype	report	en
dcterms.accessRights	open access

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