Oversight Of The Insurance Industry

This book examines policy developments that have been occurring in the field of financial regulation and their implications for the insurance industry and markets. With UK and US contributors from academia and legal practice, this book will be essential reading for policy-makers, insurance regulators, insurance and legal professionals as well as students and academics researching and studying insurance law.

In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.

Pt. 1. The economics of insurance and the macroeconomic role of insurance -- What is insurance and how does it differ from general finance? / Christian Thimann -- The macroeconomic role of insurance / Denis Kessler, Amélie de Montchalin, and Christian Thimann -- How the insurance industry manages risk / Denis Duverne and John Hele -- pt. 2. Financial stability and the possibilities of systemic risk -- Risks of life insurers : recent trends and transmission mechanisms / Ralph S.J. Koijen and Motohiro Yogo -- Measuring systemic risk for insurance companies / Viral V. Acharya, Thomas Philippon, and Matthew Richardson -- Measuring interest rate risk in the life insurance sector : the U.S. and the U.K. / Daniel Hartley, Anna Paulson and Richard J. Rosen -- pt. 3. Regulation -- How the insurance industry's asset portfolio responds to regulation / Bo Becker -- Spillover effects of risk regulation on the asset side to asset markets / Andrew Ellul, Chotibhak Jotikasthira, and Christian T. Lundblad -- A regulatory framework for systemic risk in the insurance industry / Felix Hufeld -- pt. 4. Open questions going forward from the insurance sector -- The big questions for the insurance sector : findings from a survey of insurance companies / Luca Pancaldi and Uwe Stegemann

The state of the insurance industry: examining the current regulatory and oversight structure: hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session ... Tuesday, July 29, 2008.

The state of the insurance industry: examining the current regulatory and oversight structure : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session ... Tuesday, July 29, 2008.