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題名 Reinsurance, Debt Capacity and Financial Flexibility
作者 許永明
Yung-Ming Shiu
Li, Xiaoyi
貢獻者 風管系
日期 2020-08
上傳時間 25-May-2021 11:51:05 (UTC+8)
摘要 Prior studies conclude that hedging has a positive effect on firms’ debt capacity; however, in the present study, we argue that this relationship is moderated by their financial flexibility. Using statutory data from 2001 to 2016 from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners database on U.S. property and casualty insurers and a simultaneous equations model, we examine how financial flexibility moderates the effect of reinsurance—a risk management tool commonly used by insurance firms—on debt capacity. We find that the relationship between reinsurance usage and debt capacity is positive for financially inflexible insurers, but negative for their financially flexible counterparts, thereby suggesting that the effects of reinsurance are actually dependent upon the financial flexibility of insurers. Several robustness checks are conducted and our main results remain qualitatively unchanged.
關聯 The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-020-00190-7
dc.contributor 風管系
dc.creator (作者) 許永明
dc.creator (作者) Yung-Ming Shiu
dc.creator (作者) Li, Xiaoyi
dc.date (日期) 2020-08
dc.date.accessioned 25-May-2021 11:51:05 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 25-May-2021 11:51:05 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 25-May-2021 11:51:05 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/135116-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Prior studies conclude that hedging has a positive effect on firms’ debt capacity; however, in the present study, we argue that this relationship is moderated by their financial flexibility. Using statutory data from 2001 to 2016 from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners database on U.S. property and casualty insurers and a simultaneous equations model, we examine how financial flexibility moderates the effect of reinsurance—a risk management tool commonly used by insurance firms—on debt capacity. We find that the relationship between reinsurance usage and debt capacity is positive for financially inflexible insurers, but negative for their financially flexible counterparts, thereby suggesting that the effects of reinsurance are actually dependent upon the financial flexibility of insurers. Several robustness checks are conducted and our main results remain qualitatively unchanged.
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dc.relation (關聯) The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
dc.title (題名) Reinsurance, Debt Capacity and Financial Flexibility
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1057/s41288-020-00190-7
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-020-00190-7