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The influence of negative interest rates on European life insurance companies

Nicolaus Grochola

Journal of Risk and Insurance

Sustainability-related financial product categorization through minimum investment quotas via regulatory requirements for product names – Comment on ESMA guidelines regarding fund names that use ESG or sustainability-related terms

Gerrit Lüders

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 4, pp. 201-209 (2026)

Soft law instead of Section 209 VVG – legal certainty in reinsurance thanks to PRICL

Kevin Bork

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftung und Schadensersatz (r+s), Vol. 22, pp. 1109-1116 (2025)

Compliance with anti-money laundering obligations involving third parties

Paul Schultess 

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 9, pp. 521-529 (2025)

Premium and condition changes in ongoing insurance contracts

Manfred Wandt

in: Beckmann/Matusche-Beckmann (eds.), Versicherungsrechts-Handbuch, 4th edition (2025), pp. 693–745 

Attribution of third-party conduct in German insurance contract law

Manfred Wandt

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 7, pp. 385–398 (2025)

Life insurance convexity

Christian Kubitza, Nicolaus Grochola and Helmut Gründl

Journal of Banking & Finance

Privacy concerns in insurance markets: Implications for market equilibria and customer utility

Irina Gemmo, Mark J. Browne, Helmut Gründl
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique

Testing for loss severity: Impact on loss reduction

Kar Man Tran
Risk Management and Insurance Review

Shaping inequality and intergenerational persistence of poverty: Free college or better schools?

Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig and Irinia Popova
Journal of Monetary Economics

Identifying scenarios for the own risk and solvency assessment of insurance companies

Philipp Aigner
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Money laundering prevention in the insurance sector – status quo, criticism of supervision and innovations through the EU Money Laundering Package

Paul Schultess and Eyip Akcuru

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 15, pp. 961-974 (2024)

Between sustainability-related disclosures and product categorization in the financial services sector - Reflections on the consultation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation

Gerrit Lüders and Manfred Wandt

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 12, pp. 757-766 (2024)

D&O insurance cover in cases of internal liability

Manfred Wandt

in: Donald/Haag/Paech (eds.), Festschrift für Andreas Cahn zum 65. Geburtstag (2024), pp. 473–489

Fundamentals of the interpretation of Section 163 of the German Insurance Contract Act (VVG) and the admissibility of adjustment clauses for the pension factor in pension insurance

Manfred Wandt

Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 11, pp. 673–685 (2024)

Discretionary Decisions in Capital Requirements Under Solvency II

Nicolaus Grochola and Sebastian Schlütter
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice

Sectoral Asset Concentrations and Insurance Solvency Regulation

Fabian Regele and Helmut Gründl
Journal of Insurance Regulation

Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law

Manfred Wandt

in: Looschelders/Michael (eds.), Düsseldorfer Vorträge zum Versicherungsrecht 2023 (2024), pp. 57–73

Note on the Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL) and the Covid-19 health crisis

Manfred Wandt and Members of the PRICL Project GROUP in cooperation with UNIDROIT