Review article
SHAREHOLDERS VALUE AND CATASTROPHE BONDS. AN EVENT STUDY ANALYSIS AT EUROPEAN LEVEL
Laura-Gabriela Constantin
; The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Bogdan Cernat-Gruici
; The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Radu Lupu
; The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Lino Maria Nadotti Loris
; University of Perugia, Italy
Abstract
Considering that the E.U. based (re)insurance companies are increasingly active within the segment of alternative risk transfer market, the aim of the present paper is to emphasize the impact of issuing cat bonds on the shareholders’ value for highlighting the competitive advantages of the analysed (re)insurance companies while pursuing the consolidation of their resilience in a turbulent economic environment.Eminently an applicative research, the analysis employs an event study methodology whereas adjusting
the market model residuals with the aim of accounting for generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) effects through advanced econometric procedures. To account for the
shareholders’ value, the research employs high frequency financial data (daily returns of stoc k-exchange listed (re)insurance companies) and the cat bonds’ announcement dates as economic events.
Keywords
alternative risk transfer solutions; catastrophe bonds; competitive advantage; event study; GARCH model
Hrčak ID:
135731
URI
Publication date:
25.3.2014.
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