The pricing of US catastrophe reinsurance:

We explore two theories that have been advanced to explain the patterns in U.S. catastrophe reinsurance pricing. The first is that price variation is tied to demand shocks, driven in effect by changes in actuarially expected losses. The second holds that the supply of capital to the reinsurance indu...

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Hauptverfasser: Froot, Kenneth A. (VerfasserIn), O'Connell, Paul G. J. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. 1997
Schriftenreihe:National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 6043
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Zusammenfassung:We explore two theories that have been advanced to explain the patterns in U.S. catastrophe reinsurance pricing. The first is that price variation is tied to demand shocks, driven in effect by changes in actuarially expected losses. The second holds that the supply of capital to the reinsurance industry is less than perfectly elastic, with the consequences that prices are bid up whenever existing funds are depleted by catastrophe losses. Using detailed reinsurance contract data from Guy Carpenter & Co. over a 25-year period, we test these two theories. Our results suggest that capital market imperfections are more important than shifts in actuarial valuation for understanding catastrophe reinsurance pricing. Supply, rather than demand, shifts seem to explain most features of the market in the aftermath of a loss.
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