Ownership Structure and Reinsurance Decisions: Evidence from the Property Casualty Insurance Industry in China
出版日期:2016-02-05 00:00:00
著者:Chia-Ling Ho
著錄名稱、卷期、頁數:The Chinese Economy 49(1), p.14-31
摘要:This study examines the impact of ownership structure on reinsurance decisions in the Chinese property casualty insurance industry. The evidence shows that foreign insurers have higher reinsurance demand than domestic insurers. Specifically, foreign insurers are more likely to purchase volunteer reinsurance. More important, foreign insurers are associated with a higher percentage of facultative reinsurance ratios than domestic insurers. We also find that the insurer’ ROA is positively related to reinsurance demand, whereas firm size and tax shield are negatively related to reinsurance demand. Implementing the compulsory (statutory) reinsurance ratio in the Chinese insurance market before 2006 is inefficient. Finally, the revised regulation of compulsory reinsurance ratios affected the reinsurance demand after 2006. For example, insurers with a 10 percent compulsory reinsurance ratio in 2004 had significantly different reinsurance demands from that of insurers without compulsory reinsurance after 2006. The overall results of this study indicate that ownership structure (foreign versus domestic ownership) and other characteristics of firms’ significantly affect the demand for reinsurance.
關鍵字:Reinsurance demand;ownership structure;compulsory reinsurance;voluntary reinsurance;facultative reinsurance;treaty reinsurance
語言:en_US
ISSN:1097-1475; 1558-0954
期刊性質:國外
通訊作者:Chia-Ling Ho
審稿制度:是
國別:USA
出版型式:電子版