Equilibrium with monoline and multiline structures
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Ibragimov, Rustam
Jaffee, Dwight
Walden, Johan
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We study a competitive market for risk-sharing, in which risk-tolerant providers of risk protection, who face frictional costs in holding capital, offer coverage over a range of risk classes to risk-averse agents. We distinguish monoline and multiline industry structures and characterize when each structure is optimal. Markets for which the risks are limited in number, asymmetric or correlated will be served by monoline structures, whereas markets characterized by a large number of essentially independent risks will be served by many multiline firms. Our results are consistent with observed structures within insurance, and also have general implications for the financial services industry.
Date Issued
2018-03-01
Date Acceptance
2017-01-01
Citation
Review of Finance, 2018, 22 (2), pp.595-632
ISSN
1573-692X
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Start Page
595
End Page
632
Journal / Book Title
Review of Finance
Volume
22
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© The Authors 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Finance Association. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Review of Finance following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/rof/article/22/2/595/2932200 For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
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Subjects
Social Sciences
Business, Finance
Economics
Business & Economics
Insurance
Financial services
Risk-sharing
Diversification
INDEPENDENT RANDOM-VARIABLES
STABLE COALITION STRUCTURES
CAPITAL STRUCTURE POLICY
CATASTROPHE INSURANCE
RISK-MANAGEMENT
REINSURANCE
ALLOCATION
MOMENT
RESTRICTIONS
INEQUALITIES
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-01-21