... events reduce insurance availability (coverage), causing a hard market using the full sample. Using the full sample, insurers’ ability to increase insurance availability upon catastrophic losses is conditioned on market power. For the life insurance market, insurers’ ability to increase insurance...

...Jianhua Zhang; Mohammad Shahidul Islam Purpose The primary purpose of the study is to examine the role of market power in driving innovation and productivity of intangible intensive firms of eight emerging economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-8). Design/methodology...