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The Advantages of a Global Solvency Standard

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  • Nikolaus von Bomhard

    (Munich Re, Königinstrasse 107, Munich, 80802, Germany)

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Insurance and reinsurance companies provide their services and risk taking capacity not only in their home markets, but also in other territories and jurisdictions. Sophisticated supervisory approaches must exist to protect the policy-holders adequately in such a complex environment. It is thus not beneficial for supervisors, insurers and reinsurers as well as policy-holders if each territory establishes its own supervisory regime. Only a global supervisory approach can cope with the comprehensive requirements and would ensure that resources of all stakeholders are appropriately allocated. The paper compares the supervisory regimes in Europe and the Unites States, that is in the two main insurance markets. The analyses reveal that the future European standard Solvency II exhibits many features that would also be required for a potential future global solvency standard.

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  • Nikolaus von Bomhard, 2010. "The Advantages of a Global Solvency Standard," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 35(1), pages 79-91, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gpprii:v:35:y:2010:i:1:p:79-91
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    1. Liu, Shuyan & Jia, Ruo & Zhao, Yulong & Sun, Qixiang, 2019. "Global consistent or market-oriented? A quantitative assessment of RBC standards, solvency II, and C-ROSS," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).
    2. Meier, Samira & Rodriguez Gonzalez, Miguel & Kunze, Frederik, 2021. "The global financial crisis, the EMU sovereign debt crisis and international financial regulation: lessons from a systematic literature review," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).

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