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Environmental Damage Costs of Insurance Companies
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: Received: 25 August 2024 / Approved: 25 August 2024 / Online: 26 August 2024 (08:27:44 CEST)
How to cite: Bressan, S. Environmental Damage Costs of Insurance Companies. Preprints 2024, 2024081799. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1799.v1 Bressan, S. Environmental Damage Costs of Insurance Companies. Preprints 2024, 2024081799. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1799.v1
Abstract
We examine worldwide Property and Casualty and Life and Health insurance companies from 2004 until 2023, implementing panel regression models and mediation analysis to show that insurers raise their reserves when they face increasing costs for their potential environmental damages, ultimately reducing their profitability and underwriting capacity.
Our findings extend to the insurance sector the previous evidence on banks, demonstrating that environmental damages could affect profits and solvency of financial intermediaries.
These insights are important especially for insurance managers and regulators.
Keywords
insurance companies; environmental damages; environmental damage costs; environmental impact ratios; profitability; leverage
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Finance
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