Investigating risk disclosure practices in the european insurance industry

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 380-413

  Höring, Dirk ^a   Gründl, Helmut ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

content analysis; insurance; positive accounting theory; risk disclosure; Solvency II

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960591005     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2011.13     Document Type: Review

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