Search for dissertations about: "insurance industry analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words insurance industry analysis.
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1. Competitive Advantage in the Service Industry : The Importance of Strategic Congruence, Integrated Control and Coherent Organisational Structure – A Longitudinal Case Study of an Insurance Company
Abstract : Competitive advantage has received considerable attention. Few studies have however chosen a holistic approach taking multiple aspects and organisational levels into consideration. This research has the goal of filling parts of this void. READ MORE
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2. Partial and General Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance : Identification, Estimation and Inference
Abstract : Essay I: Wage setting models typically posit a tight relationship between the generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) and equilibrium wages. This paper estimates the effect of UI on workers’ wages. READ MORE
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3. An Institutional Analysis of Insurance Regulation - The Case of Sweden
Abstract : The thesis is a broad attempt to analyse economic forces behind, and economic rationales for, institutions that constrain the organisation and operation of insurance companies. The basic task is threefold: (i) to develop institutional theory by providing an outline of a transaction cost explanation of the origin of, and the rationale for, institutions that constrain the organisation and the operation of insurance organisations; (ii) to apply our institutional theory and explain recorded institutional structures in order to make them intelligible with respect to the contractual context in which they have been nested; and (iii) to appraise the explanatory power of our institutional theory with respect to conventional economic theories on the economics of public regulation. READ MORE
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4. The Plural Policing of Fraud : Power and the investigation of insurance and welfare fraud in Sweden
Abstract : There is a vast literature on plural policing and the ways in which non-governmental actors now have and are assuming more responsibility for crime control. This literature argues that the connection between policing and the state is being eroded, questioned and sometimes abandoned in favour of networks in which the state acts as one actor among many others. READ MORE
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5. Insurance: solvency and valuation
Abstract : This thesis concerns mathematical and statistical concepts useful to assess an insurer's risk of insolvency. We study company internal claims payment data and publicly available market data with the aim of estimating (the right tail of) the insurer's aggregate loss distribution. READ MORE