Indexed and non-indexed insurance and the growth of group life insurance

This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the hypothesis that expectations of inflation reinforces the need for indexed insurance and decreases purchases of fixed-dollar contracts. A comparison between term life insurance and group life insurance is developed to demonstrate the positive effect of inflation on the growth of group life insurance.     

寿险公司资产负债管理技术的应用研究--动态资产负债管理的视角

资产负债管理是抵御利率变动对寿险公司经营的一种有效的方法,但如何将资产负债管理具体化到日常的财务控制工作中来,并建立具体的资产负债管理的评价指标和信息系统,寿险公司尚无实践的经验.本文以动态资产负债表为切入点,研究了寿险公司日常管理活动中,资产负债管理的技术和方法的应用,以资产份额分析法为例,分析了寿险公司动态资产负债管理的过程,对寿险公司引进资产负债管理有一定的实践意义.     

Gibrat法则是否适用于中国寿险公司——兼论寿险公司规模与成长的影响因素

近年来中国寿险市场发展呈现出"寡头主导、大中小共生"的局面。究竟应重点发展"巨无霸"式的金融保险集团,还是应优先发展"船小好掉头"的中小保险公司,这是中国寿险市场面临的一个重要选择。Gibrat法则认为同一行业中的企业,其成长率是独立于其规模的变量,文章对Gibrat法则在寿险业的适用性进行了实证检验,研究结果表明:(1)Gibrat法则对中国的寿险公司不成立,规模越小的公司其成长率越高;(2)寿险公司资产增长率和保费增长率均存在条件收敛效应;(3)寿险公司的产业特点、业务结构和经营产生的外部性会较显著地影响其规模与成长。文章认为中国寿险市场发展的选择如果与本文所揭示的规律相匹配,则寿险业发展会进入良性循环。     

The effects of risk aversion on life insurance ownership of single-parent households

This study investigates the effect of risk aversion of single-parent households with at least one child under 18 on life insurance ownership. Analysing the 1992–2013 Survey of Consumer Finances datasets, we found that the likelihood of owning term life insurance decreases as risk aversion increases, but the likelihood of owning cash-value life insurance increases as risk aversion increases. Smokers were less likely to own term life insurance but more likely to own cash-value life insurance than comparable non-smokers.     

我国寿险需求影响因素的实证分析

运用1985—2005年的有关数据,对影响我国寿险需求的相关因素进行回归分析。结果表明:国民收入、赡养率和寿险供给对于我国寿险需求的影响显著;而名义利率和预期的通货膨胀率对我国寿险需求的影响不显著。     

区域寿险和非寿险与经济增长的关系研究——基于新疆的实证分析

本文以新疆1980年-2008年的财产保险保费收入、人身保险保费收入和GDP数据的对数值为依据,进行实证分析。通过分析认为,新疆财产保险发展、人身保险发展与经济增长存在正相关关系;新疆财产保险业发展与经济增长存在协整关系,而人身保险与经济增长不存在协整关系;短期内财产保险、寿险都不是经济增长的Granger原因,但经济增长却是财产保险和寿险发展的Granger原因,而从长期来看,寿险的增长可能是经济增长的Granger原因。     

中国寿险市场成长预测

近年来中国保险市场发展快速,其中以人寿保险市场的发展最为显着,而市场营收的成长更是惊人,2005～2008年平均复合成长率是23.9%。试用灰色预测理论GM(1,1)四期预测模型以及传统的回归模式对中国保险市场的人寿险销售量进行预测。研究发现,灰色预测模式适用于中国人寿险市场的预测,且以四期建构为最准确,结果的精确度均达90%以上,符合灰色理论强调少数据、小样本的预测特性;且GM(1,1)四期预测模型精确度高于传统的回归预测模式。     

我国寿险公司范围经济效应的实证研究

我国自1996年实施产寿分业经营以来,人身保险业务快速增长,寿险公司数量急剧增加,寿险公司业务中新型寿险的比重不断上升,呈现出"一险独大"的市场状况。运用超越对数成本函数,对国内29家具有代表性的寿险公司2005-2010年期间的范围经济状况进行检验的结果显示:不同规模和背景的寿险公司的范围经济系数均比较明显,但是很多寿险公司所表现出来的范围经济性具有"欺骗性"。因此,寿险业务结构调整缺乏内部的市场激励,需要强有力的外部力量推动。     

中国寿险业利率风险的实证分析及其情景测试

本文从实证的角度分析了我国近几年来的降息对寿险业负债的影响。定量刻画了寿险业准备金对利率风险的暴露程度，在此基础上，参照美国保险监督官协会采用的现金流量测试方法，对我国某保险公司1999年末的资产负债状态进行了情景分析与应力测试，结果证明我国寿险业目前风险管理绩效尚可，但仍需进一步完善。     

中国寿险业增长中的人才贡献率研究

2011年以来,整个寿险业面临增速放缓的巨大压力,如何顺利实现转型发展战略成为关注的焦点。从人才建设角度,利用行业内具有影响力寿险公司作为代表,借鉴国际通用要素贡献率计算方法,对我国寿险业人才贡献率进行了初步测算,并从管理制度、培训体系和企业文化等方面提出了相关政策建议。     

中国寿险需求实证分析

本文对国内外的寿险需求分析研究进行了简单综述，在此基础上抽取全目30省市1998—2003年的数据．采取面板数据模型就收入、通货膨胀、社会保障、银行利率、死亡率等寿险需求影响因素与保费收入相关性作了Granger因果性检验分析。     

连续时间模型下的寿险需求和中国寿险市场的相关实证研究

本文以我国寿险市场为背景,通过建立包括保险决策的资产选择的动态连续时间模型,给出了保险产品价格成本效应对寿险需求影响的理论分析,并通过具体的数据分析讨论了模型的意义。本文还实证研究了目前我国保险市场一些主要的保障型寿险产品的附加保费因子及其对我国居民保险需求的影响。这在某种程度上解释了我国目前保障性保险需求不足的现象。同时本文实证分析的结果显示我国的保障性保险还远没有满足我国居民的潜在需求,并针对这种现象提出了相关的政策建议。     

Investigating household choice for health and life insurance

The objective of this article is to investigate the joint determination of household choice for health and life insurance. Using the 2008–2009 Consumer Expenditure Survey data, we model household choice for health and life insurance assuming households consider purchasing them to manage financial risks in their life, after accounting for household characteristics, insurance characteristics, health status, and disability status. The model allows assessing the impact of health insurance choice on the choice of life insurance and the correlation between these two choices. The result suggests that health insurance choice positively affects the choice of life insurance and these two choices are positively correlated indicating complementary nature of these insurances in the basket of households’ risk minimising goods.     

我国寿险业的效率研究

在寿险业市场全面对外开放以及全球金融危机的双重压力下,我国寿险业正面临着如何提升效率、维持竞争力的严峻考验。研究表明,提高财务杠杆率、扩张市场占有率是提升寿险企业经营效率的重要途径。由于股权属性在不同资源投入效率上各具优势,且企业成立年数对企业效率没有显著影响,使国内寿险企业在对外竞争中并不处劣势。     

Racial disparities in life insurance coverage

We evaluate the extent to which there are racial disparities in life insurance coverage using multiple years of the Survey of Income and Program Participation between 2001 and 2010. We find that African Americans hold significantly more life insurance – especially whole life insurance – after controlling for other factors. We demonstrate that our findings diverge from prior work because we examine all households instead of focusing exclusively on married and cohabitating households. Although earning shocks due to mortality likely contribute to racial disparities in wealth, the influence is mitigated by the racial composition of life insurance holdings.     

Life Insurance,Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth

We compare growth rates in the absence and presence of life insurance using an overlapping generations framework with human capital accumulation to clarify how life insurance contributes to economic growth through the education investment of individuals depending on economic circumstances. Our results show that, as expected, the growth rate is higher when there is life insurance if the rate of time preference or the productivity of human capital accumulation is sufficiently low and if the income loss induced from lifetime uncertainty is moderate. However, if the income loss is sufficiently large, the growth rate is lower when there is life insurance.     

The life insurance market: Asymmetric information revisited

This paper finds evidence for the presence of asymmetric information in the life insurance market, a conclusion contrasting with the existing literature. In particular, we find a significant and positive correlation between the decision to purchase life insurance and subsequent mortality, conditional on risk classification. Individuals who died within a 12-year time window after a base year were 19% more likely to have taken up life insurance in that base year than were those who survived the time window. Moreover, as might be expected when individuals have residual private information, we find that the earlier an individual died, the more likely she was to have initially bought insurance. The primary factor driving the difference between our and the prior literature's findings is that we focus on a sample of potential new buyers, rather than on the entire cross section, to address the sample selection problem induced by potential mortality differences between those with and those without coverage.     

Bequest Motives and the Demand for Life Insurance in East Germany

Empirical studies of household saving remain inconclusive about the role of bequest motives. This may be due to the diluting effect of different tax regimes across countries and time on estimates of bequest motives. Relative to market‐based economies, the former German Democratic Republic can be viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life‐insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations. This allows isolating bequest motives from other life‐cycle and precautionary savings motives. Analyzing the demand for life insurance, we find a significantly higher ownership probability among households with children and a high regard for the family, confirming bequest motives in life‐insurance demand.     

我国寿险公司规模经济效应的实证研究

运用超越对数成本函数,对2005—2010年我国30家具有代表性的寿险公司的规模经济状况进行了检验。实证结果表明:无论企业规模如何,中资寿险公司均表现出具有一定的规模经济效应,并且其经营历史越长、规模越大,其规模经济效应越强;部分合资及外资寿险公司表现出具有微弱的规模经济性,其他合资及外资寿险公司则表现出具有明显的规模不经济性。     

外部冲击视角下的中国寿险需求分析——基于向量自回归模型及脉冲响应函数的动态计量检验

使用VAR模型和脉冲响应函数,从外部冲击视角分析显示:农民收入以及社会保障体系是影响中国寿险需求的主要因素.一般而言,社保和商业寿险呈替代关系,但本文的实证结果意外证明了两者具有长期互补性.由此,作者衍生的政策建议是把增加农民收入作为拉动寿险需求的长期政策,不断完善社保机制,实现社保与寿险的良性互动.