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Solvency II Directive and the Key Features of the European Insurance Market

In: Capital Requirements, Disclosure, and Supervision in the European Insurance Industry

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  • Maria Grazia Starita
  • Irma Malafronte

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This chapter describes the Solvency II Directive (2009/138/EC), which is the regulatory framework for the European insurance industry. This chapter also provides statistics on the European insurance market, and introduces a sample of European insurance companies that is used in the next chapters for providing empirical evidence of the theoretical topics analysed. Thus, this chapter has three main goals: describing the characteristics, principles, and aims of the regulatory framework of Solvency II; identifying the key features of the European insurance market and distinguishing between life and non-life insurance activities providing statistics for both; selecting a sample of European insurers that can be used to empirically test the theoretical topics analysed in the subsequent chapters of this book.

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  • Maria Grazia Starita & Irma Malafronte, 2014. "Solvency II Directive and the Key Features of the European Insurance Market," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Capital Requirements, Disclosure, and Supervision in the European Insurance Industry, chapter 2, pages 13-58, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-39084-4_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137390844_2
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