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Two Essays in Finance

Market Response to Catastrophic Losses on the Insurance Industry and Return on Investment of the University of Illinois to the State of Illinois Treasury

Two Essays in Finance( )
Author: Kangas, Randall
Kangas, Ward R.
ISBN:978-1-59942-004-2
Publication Date:Sep 1997
Publisher:Universal Publishers
Imprint:Dissertation.com
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $13.00
Book Description:

Based on data on publicly traded insurance firms, the first essay examines questions about the effect of large catastrophic events on insurance firms. Rather than looking at a single event, thirty catastrophic events were aggregated into quintiles and the cumulative abnormal returns around these events were found to be significantly positive over a 25 day trading window. There is no significant evidence that post-catastrophic stock returns are correlated to the magnitude of the...
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