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Joan Lamm-Tennant
Researcher at Cork College of Commerce
Publications - 10
Citations - 635
Joan Lamm-Tennant is an academic researcher from Cork College of Commerce. The author has contributed to research in topics: Underwriting & Liability insurance. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications receiving 624 citations.
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Stock Versus Mutual Ownership Structures: The Risk Implications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide empirical tests of the risk differences between two types of ownership structure in the property-liability insurance industry and provide empirical evidence that suggests stock insurers have more risk than mutuals where the risk inherent in future cash flows is proxied by the variance of the loss ratio.
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International Insurance Cycles: Rational Expectations/Institutional Intervention
Joan Lamm-Tennant,Mary A. Weiss +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a generalized least squares analysis of changes in premium levels is used to test the rational expectations/ institutional intervention hypothesis across countries as well as within each country, and the relation between cycle length and the market/institutional features of each country is examined.
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Insuring September 11th: Market Recovery and Transparency
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test several theoretical models of how markets respond to and recover from extreme capital shocks using the capacity constraint, post-loss investment and implicit insurance contract models, and develop testable hypotheses predicting the temporal and cross sectional variation in insurance company stock prices following September 11th.
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Considerations of cost trade-offs in insurance solvency surveillance policy
TL;DR: In this paper, a loss cost function is developed such that the effectiveness of monitoring is maximized relative to a cost constraint, which is supported by a model that provides a rank ordering of financial institutions according to their probability of insolvency.
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Asset/liability Management for the Life Insurer: Situation Analysis and Strategy Formulation
TL;DR: In this paper, Babbel and Stricker present a survey of the current operational status and planning procedures of seven asset/liability management processes appropriate for life insurers and offer recommendations.