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Ownership and Solvency of (Re)Insurance Companies: An Indonesian Climate-Based Insurance Study

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Despite the urgency of COVID-19, insurance companies are facing a slower-moving global crisis, namely climate change. This paper aims to investigate how corporate ownership affects the solvency of (re)insurance companies. It also analyses how climate-based insurance products, and the COVID-19 pandemic period differentiate these effects. The quantitative approach uses company accounting data throughout 2016-2022 and solvency is measured by risk-based capital (RBC). The findings show that for climate change-based (re)insurance companies, the larger the foreign-owned company, the higher the RBC level. Meanwhile, there is no difference in the effect of government and non-government owned insurance companies on their RBC. Another finding found that foreign ownership has a significant effect on the RBC of general insurance companies during the COVID-19 pandemic, while there is no relationship between the two during normal conditions. This research is expected to encourage the development and sustainability of climate change-based insurance, as well as input for financial regulators.

Source: Indonesian Journal of Sustainability Accounting and Management

DOI: 10.28992/ijsam.v8i2.927

Authors: Etikah Karyani, Rivan Dwi Aghnitama

Institution: Sebelas Maret University

Language: English

Topic: Insurance and Financial Risk Management

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: College of Engineering, Michigan State University