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Foreign Share, Insurance Density, and Penetration: An Analysis of the International Life Insurance Market
Author(s) -
Ma YuLuen,
Pope Nat
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
risk management and insurance review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1540-6296
pISSN - 1098-1616
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6296.2008.00143.x
Subject(s) - life insurance , liberalization , business , market share , value (mathematics) , government (linguistics) , economics , monetary economics , actuarial science , finance , market economy , machine learning , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
Recent trends toward liberalization and deregulation have sparked significant interest in the topic of international insurers' participation in foreign markets. This research develops a profile of foreign national market characteristics that attract international life insurer participation and additionally, empirically assesses the value that international participation has to the host market. Characteristics that are found to be statistically significant with respect to international participation include high levels of trade liberalization and/or low insurer market share concentration, high levels of national wealth, and high levels of government expenditure on social security retirement benefits. With respect to the benefits such participation provides, we see that the presence of international life insurers share positive relationships with both life insurance consumption and the magnitude of the role life insurance plays within the broader national economy of those host markets.