"Economic theory suggests that insurers should prioritize underwriting over investment as a source of income. We find that many U.S. non-life insurers conform to theory: they consistently earn high returns on underwriting and have relatively low-risk investment portfolios. A subset of insurers, however, do the opposite: they consistently earn low returns on underwriting and have relatively high-risk investment portfolios."
"Private businesses are making actuarial decisions, assessing that some locations are just too vulnerable to insure. At the same time, this insurance retreat also poses a policy challenge for states a
New estimators for generalized tail distortion (GTD) risk measures are proposed, based on first-order asymptotic expansions, offering simplicity and comparable or better performance than existing meth
Cyber risk presents significant challenges to society, yet its statistical behavior remains insufficiently understood. This paper analyzes three databases to study cyber risk dynamics. It identifies i