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- Title
Intangible Assets and Firm Asset Risk Taking: An Analysis of Property and Liability Insurance Firms.
- Authors
Yu, Tong; Lin, Bingxuan; Oppenheimer, Henry R.; Chen, Xuanjuan
- Abstract
Intangible assets facilitate insurers' capacity to retain existing business and attract new clients. In this study we analyze how the incentives to protect intangible assets affect asset risk-taking behavior of property and liability insurers. The result supports the view that insurers' incentives to protect their intangible assets lead to an inverse relation between intangible assets and asset risk. Consistent with the view that highly levered firms may go for broke, asset risk of highly levered insurers is less elastic to intangible assets than that of lower-levered insurers. An additional notable finding of our article is that tangible factors like firm size and capitalization increase insurers' appetites for asset risk taking.
- Subjects
INTANGIBLE property; PROPERTY insurance; LIABILITY insurance; RISK-taking behavior; INSURANCE companies; ECONOMIC impact of business enterprises
- Publication
Risk Management & Insurance Review, 2008, Vol 11, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
1098-1616
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6296.2008.00136.x