IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jrinsu/v85y2018i2p513-543.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Combined Effect of Enterprise Risk Management and Diversification on Property and Casualty Insurer Performance

Author

Listed:
  • Jing Ai
  • Vickie Bajtelsmit
  • Tianyang Wang

Abstract

In a well†designed enterprise risk management (ERM) program, the firm integrates risk management into the strategic planning process, addressing strategic, financial, operational, and hazard risks under a single overarching process. This is particularly important to large financial firms, such as property and casualty (P&C) insurers, which face a diverse set of risks. Using a sample of P&C insurers with S&P ERM quality ratings from 2006 to 2013, we find that the quality of a firm's ERM is a significant determinant of P&C insurer performance and that, for firms with high†quality ERM programs, product line diversification has a significant positive effect on performance.

Suggested Citation

  • Jing Ai & Vickie Bajtelsmit & Tianyang Wang, 2018. "The Combined Effect of Enterprise Risk Management and Diversification on Property and Casualty Insurer Performance," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 85(2), pages 513-543, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:jrinsu:v:85:y:2018:i:2:p:513-543
    DOI: 10.1111/jori.12166
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12166
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/jori.12166?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Courtney B. Baggett & Cassandra R. Cole, 2023. "Insurance groups, product diversification, and the role of surplus lines affiliation," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 26(1), pages 35-56, March.
    2. Patty Duijm & Ilke Van Beveren, 2022. "Product diversification as a performance boosting strategy? Drivers and impact of diversification strategies in the property‐liability insurance industry," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 25(3), pages 303-328, September.
    3. Adam, Mukhtar & Soliman, Alaa. M. & Mahtab, Nehal, 2023. "Measuring enterprise risk management implementation: A multifaceted approach for the banking sector," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 244-256.
    4. Nguyen, Duc Khuong & Vo, Dinh-Tri, 2020. "Enterprise risk management and solvency: The case of the listed EU insurers," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 360-369.
    5. Patrick Dahmen, 2023. "Organizational resilience as a key property of enterprise risk management in response to novel and severe crisis events," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 26(2), pages 203-245, July.
    6. Gulnara N. Kaigorodova* & Guzel Kh. Pyrkova & Alfiya A. Mustafina & Darya P. Alyakina & Ksenia A. Syvorotkina, 2018. "Mechanisms for Compensation of Damage," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, pages 387-391:1.
    7. Eduart Villanueva & María Antonia Nuñez & Izaias Martins, 2022. "Impact Of Risk Governance, Associated Practices and Tools on Enterprise Risk Management: Some Evidence from Colombia," Revista Finanzas y Politica Economica, Universidad Católica de Colombia, vol. 14(1), pages 187-206, January.
    8. Sorin Gabriel Anton & Anca Elena Afloarei Nucu, 2020. "Enterprise Risk Management: A Literature Review and Agenda for Future Research," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-22, November.
    9. Rami Shaheen & Mehmet Ağa & Husam Rjoub & Ahmad Abualrub, 2020. "Investigation of the Pillars of Sustainability Risk Management as an Extension of Enterprise Risk Management on Palestinian Insurance Firms’ Profitability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-20, June.
    10. Baltuttis, Dennik & Töppel, Jannick & Tränkler, Timm & Wiethe, Christian, 2020. "Managing the risks of energy efficiency insurances in a portfolio context: An actuarial diversification approach," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    11. Courtney B. Baggett & Cassandra R. Cole & George Crowley & E. Tice Sirmans, 2020. "Spillover effects of increased health insurance enrollment on workers’ compensation insurance," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 23(1), pages 53-74, March.
    12. Yu Zhao & Huaming Du & Qing Li & Fuzhen Zhuang & Ji Liu & Gang Kou, 2022. "A Comprehensive Survey on Enterprise Financial Risk Analysis from Big Data Perspective," Papers 2211.14997, arXiv.org, revised May 2023.
    13. Arash Khalili Nasr & Saideh Alaei & Fateme Bakhshi & Farzin Rasoulyan & Hojat Tayaran & Mohammad Farahi, 2019. "How enterprise risk management (erm) can affect on short-term and long-term firm performance: evidence from the Iranian banking system," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 7(2), pages 1387-1403, December.
    14. Evan M. Eastman & Jianren Xu, 2021. "Market reactions to enterprise risk management adoption, incorporation by rating agencies, and ORSA Act passage," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 24(2), pages 151-180, June.
    15. Muhammed Altuntas & Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle & J. David Cummins, 2021. "Enterprise risk management and economies of scale and scope: evidence from the German insurance industry," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 299(1), pages 811-845, April.
    16. Chih-Te Yang & Yensen Ni & Mu-Hsiang Yu & Yuhsin Chen & Paoyu Huang, 2023. "Decoding the Profitability of Insurance Products: A Novel Approach to Evaluating Non-Participating and Participating Insurance Policies," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(13), pages 1-16, June.
    17. Doureige J. Jurdi & Sam M. AlGhnaimat, 2021. "The Effects of ERM Adoption on European Insurance Firms Performance and Risks," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-17, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jrinsu:v:85:y:2018:i:2:p:513-543. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ariaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.