{"title":"Business structure, competition, and financial stability: Evidence from China's property-liability insurance market","authors":"Shuang Wu , Yanan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2025.107227","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using non-balanced panel data from China's property-liability insurance market between 2008 and 2016, this study examines the impact of business structures on corporate financial stability. Results show that an increase in non-auto insurance significantly improves an enterprise's financial stability, particularly for foreign-funded and small Chinese-funded companies. An analysis of the moderating effect shows that only small Chinese-funded insurance companies will benefit from the positive effect of the business structure on financial stability. These findings have important policy implications for the government and insurers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 107227"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Finance Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544612325004908","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Using non-balanced panel data from China's property-liability insurance market between 2008 and 2016, this study examines the impact of business structures on corporate financial stability. Results show that an increase in non-auto insurance significantly improves an enterprise's financial stability, particularly for foreign-funded and small Chinese-funded companies. An analysis of the moderating effect shows that only small Chinese-funded insurance companies will benefit from the positive effect of the business structure on financial stability. These findings have important policy implications for the government and insurers.
期刊介绍:
Finance Research Letters welcomes submissions across all areas of finance, aiming for rapid publication of significant new findings. The journal particularly encourages papers that provide insight into the replicability of established results, examine the cross-national applicability of previous findings, challenge existing methodologies, or demonstrate methodological contingencies.
Papers are invited in the following areas:
Actuarial studies
Alternative investments
Asset Pricing
Bankruptcy and liquidation
Banks and other Depository Institutions
Behavioral and experimental finance
Bibliometric and Scientometric studies of finance
Capital budgeting and corporate investment
Capital markets and accounting
Capital structure and payout policy
Commodities
Contagion, crises and interdependence
Corporate governance
Credit and fixed income markets and instruments
Derivatives
Emerging markets
Energy Finance and Energy Markets
Financial Econometrics
Financial History
Financial intermediation and money markets
Financial markets and marketplaces
Financial Mathematics and Econophysics
Financial Regulation and Law
Forecasting
Frontier market studies
International Finance
Market efficiency, event studies
Mergers, acquisitions and the market for corporate control
Micro Finance Institutions
Microstructure
Non-bank Financial Institutions
Personal Finance
Portfolio choice and investing
Real estate finance and investing
Risk
SME, Family and Entrepreneurial Finance