Title
Intangible assets and firm asset risk taking: An analysis of property and liability insurance firms
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
3-1-2008
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. © The American Risk and Insurance Review, 2008.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Risk Management and Insurance Review
Volume
11
Issue
1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Yu, Tong, Bingxuan Lin, Henry R. Oppenheimer, and Xuanjuan Chen. "Intangible assets and firm asset risk taking: An analysis of property and liability insurance firms." Risk Management and Insurance Review 11, 1 (2008): 157-178. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6296.2008.00136.x.