Mike Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1201-0025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Managing policy lapse risk in Sweden’s life insurance market between 1915 and 1947
We examine the challenges that Swedish life insurers faced in managing the lapse risk of policies written on the lives of the industrial urban working class between 1915 and 1947. We observe that with the threat of State socialisation of insurance in the 1930s, industrial life insurers modified their business practices to better control policy lapses. Using firm-level data, we also analyse the effect of socio-economic changes, such as rising real…
Queer Criminology
Censorship in the UNC System
Academic Freedom on Trial
The Criminologists’ Imagination
Firm size and growth in Sweden's life insurance market between 1855 and 1947
Using data for the period from 1855 to 1947 and the two sub-periods, 1855–1902 and 1903–47, the article examines whether the organic growth rates of 38 Swedish life insurance firms are independent of size, as predicted by Gibrat's (1931) Law of Proportionate Effects. Using panel unit root tests and panel Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) regression, the article finds a significant difference between the growth rates of small and large Swedish l…
Competing Models of Organizational Form
Mutual and stock insurers have coexisted and competed against each other in insurance markets for centuries. In this article, we examine the risk management strategies and underwriting profitability of the different organizational forms in Sweden's property fire insurance market between 1903 and 1939. We demonstrate that stock insurers acted as intermediaries between policyholders and reinsurers to operate effectively in the potentially high-risk…
Mutuality as a control for information asymmetry
We test two competing arguments regarding the influence of organisational form on underwriting performance using data from the Swedish fire insurance industry for the years 1889 to 1939 -- a period of both economic growth and stagnation. Since mutuality is a response to information asymmetry problems, mutual insurers are expected to report lower annual claims relative to premiums than stock insurance companies. However, an alternative view is tha…
Facilitating disaster preparedness through local radio broadcasting
The 2008 Disaster Mitigation Preparedness (DMP) study took place in Aceh province, Indonesia. It sought to help develop radio programmes and messages to increase resilience to disasters. The role of radio was evaluated during and after the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster. The study team interviewed 984 tsunami survivors from nine sub-districts of Banda Aceh, and local nongovernmental organisations convened eight focus groups around the area of Aceh B…
The determinants of reinsurance in the Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar years, 1919–39
Drawing a framework from agency theory, we use a panel data design to examine the factors motivating the level of demand for reinsurance in the rapidly developing Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar period 1919-39. We find that as hypothesised, reinsurance enabled Swedish fire insurers to mitigate underwriting and solvency risks and thus increased their capacity to underwrite new business in uncertain economic times. This i…
A Delinquent Discipline
The Execution of the Mentally Retarded
Racial differences in informal labeling effects
Labeling theorists have long argued that the application of negative labels can promote rather than deter delinquent behavior. Yet, it has also been suggested that the effects of negative labeling may vary by factors such as race and social class. With an emphasis on the formal labeling process, studies of differential effects by race have generally found Blacks to be less affected than Whites by negative typing. Labeling theorists have also stre…
Ecuadorean Justice
Teacher disapproval, delinquent peers, and self-reported delinquency
Differential gender effects of exposure to rap music on African American adolescents' acceptance of teen dating violence
The Predictive Efficiency of the I946 Revision of the Iowa Legal Aptitude Test
Differential gender effects of exposure to rap music on African American adolescents' acceptance of teen dating violence
Racial differences in informal labeling effects
Labeling theorists have long argued that the application of negative labels can promote rather than deter delinquent behavior. Yet, it has also been suggested that the effects of negative labeling may vary by factors such as race and social class. With an emphasis on the formal labeling process, studies of differential effects by race have generally found Blacks to be less affected than Whites by negative typing. Labeling theorists have also stre…
Competing Models of Organizational Form
Mutual and stock insurers have coexisted and competed against each other in insurance markets for centuries. In this article, we examine the risk management strategies and underwriting profitability of the different organizational forms in Sweden's property fire insurance market between 1903 and 1939. We demonstrate that stock insurers acted as intermediaries between policyholders and reinsurers to operate effectively in the potentially high-risk…
The determinants of reinsurance in the Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar years, 1919–39
Drawing a framework from agency theory, we use a panel data design to examine the factors motivating the level of demand for reinsurance in the rapidly developing Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar period 1919-39. We find that as hypothesised, reinsurance enabled Swedish fire insurers to mitigate underwriting and solvency risks and thus increased their capacity to underwrite new business in uncertain economic times. This i…
Mutuality as a control for information asymmetry
We test two competing arguments regarding the influence of organisational form on underwriting performance using data from the Swedish fire insurance industry for the years 1889 to 1939 -- a period of both economic growth and stagnation. Since mutuality is a response to information asymmetry problems, mutual insurers are expected to report lower annual claims relative to premiums than stock insurance companies. However, an alternative view is tha…
Teacher disapproval, delinquent peers, and self-reported delinquency
Facilitating disaster preparedness through local radio broadcasting
The 2008 Disaster Mitigation Preparedness (DMP) study took place in Aceh province, Indonesia. It sought to help develop radio programmes and messages to increase resilience to disasters. The role of radio was evaluated during and after the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster. The study team interviewed 984 tsunami survivors from nine sub-districts of Banda Aceh, and local nongovernmental organisations convened eight focus groups around the area of Aceh B…
Firm size and growth in Sweden's life insurance market between 1855 and 1947
Using data for the period from 1855 to 1947 and the two sub-periods, 1855–1902 and 1903–47, the article examines whether the organic growth rates of 38 Swedish life insurance firms are independent of size, as predicted by Gibrat's (1931) Law of Proportionate Effects. Using panel unit root tests and panel Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) regression, the article finds a significant difference between the growth rates of small and large Swedish l…
The Predictive Efficiency of the I946 Revision of the Iowa Legal Aptitude Test
Differential gender effects of exposure to rap music on African American adolescents' acceptance of teen dating violence
Teacher disapproval, delinquent peers, and self-reported delinquency
Ecuadorean Justice
Racial differences in informal labeling effects
Labeling theorists have long argued that the application of negative labels can promote rather than deter delinquent behavior. Yet, it has also been suggested that the effects of negative labeling may vary by factors such as race and social class. With an emphasis on the formal labeling process, studies of differential effects by race have generally found Blacks to be less affected than Whites by negative typing. Labeling theorists have also stre…
The Execution of the Mentally Retarded
A Delinquent Discipline
The determinants of reinsurance in the Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar years, 1919–39
Drawing a framework from agency theory, we use a panel data design to examine the factors motivating the level of demand for reinsurance in the rapidly developing Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar period 1919-39. We find that as hypothesised, reinsurance enabled Swedish fire insurers to mitigate underwriting and solvency risks and thus increased their capacity to underwrite new business in uncertain economic times. This i…
Mutuality as a control for information asymmetry
We test two competing arguments regarding the influence of organisational form on underwriting performance using data from the Swedish fire insurance industry for the years 1889 to 1939 -- a period of both economic growth and stagnation. Since mutuality is a response to information asymmetry problems, mutual insurers are expected to report lower annual claims relative to premiums than stock insurance companies. However, an alternative view is tha…
Facilitating disaster preparedness through local radio broadcasting
The 2008 Disaster Mitigation Preparedness (DMP) study took place in Aceh province, Indonesia. It sought to help develop radio programmes and messages to increase resilience to disasters. The role of radio was evaluated during and after the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster. The study team interviewed 984 tsunami survivors from nine sub-districts of Banda Aceh, and local nongovernmental organisations convened eight focus groups around the area of Aceh B…
Competing Models of Organizational Form
Mutual and stock insurers have coexisted and competed against each other in insurance markets for centuries. In this article, we examine the risk management strategies and underwriting profitability of the different organizational forms in Sweden's property fire insurance market between 1903 and 1939. We demonstrate that stock insurers acted as intermediaries between policyholders and reinsurers to operate effectively in the potentially high-risk…
Firm size and growth in Sweden's life insurance market between 1855 and 1947
Using data for the period from 1855 to 1947 and the two sub-periods, 1855–1902 and 1903–47, the article examines whether the organic growth rates of 38 Swedish life insurance firms are independent of size, as predicted by Gibrat's (1931) Law of Proportionate Effects. Using panel unit root tests and panel Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) regression, the article finds a significant difference between the growth rates of small and large Swedish l…
Academic Freedom on Trial
The Criminologists’ Imagination
Censorship in the UNC System
Queer Criminology
Managing policy lapse risk in Sweden’s life insurance market between 1915 and 1947
We examine the challenges that Swedish life insurers faced in managing the lapse risk of policies written on the lives of the industrial urban working class between 1915 and 1947. We observe that with the threat of State socialisation of insurance in the 1930s, industrial life insurers modified their business practices to better control policy lapses. Using firm-level data, we also analyse the effect of socio-economic changes, such as rising real…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Actuarial science (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Insurance and Financial Risk Management (5 works) · Law (5 works)