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2007 ARIA Meeting, Quebec City Simple Illustration Time C NC Soft MktHard Mkt Underwriting MarginTRANSCRIPT
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2007 ARIA Meeting, Quebec City
Contingent Commissions and Market CyclesLan JuMark BrowneUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
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Question
Do profit-based contingent commissions dampen the underwriting cycle?
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Simple Illustration
Time
C
NC
Soft Mkt Hard Mkt
Underwriting Margin
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Background on Contingent Commission Compensation Structure to Brokers - Direct Commissions (Traditionally) - Contingent Commissions Profit-based Volume-based ( PSA )
Current Issue: - RIMS against supplemental commissions
Focus !
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A Portion of Contingent Commission Bonus Matrix
Current Year Limited Loss Ratio(%) <30 30.1- 34 34.1- 37 37.1- 40 40.1- 43 43.1- 46 Premiums
Written($)
<249,999 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
250,000-499,999 0.80 0.71 0.63 0.56 0.50 0.45
500,000-999,999 1.18 1.06 0.95 0.86 0.77 0.70
1,000,000-1,999,999 1.74 1.58 1.44 1.31 1.19 1.08
2,000,000-2,999,999 1.92 1.74 1.58 1.44 1.31 1.19
3,000,000-3,999,999 2.11 1.92 1.74 1.58 1.44 1.31 Source: CNA 2006 Addendum to Agency Agreement
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Example
$2,500,000 premiums written Current year limited loss ratio is 30%
Contingent commission = $2,500,000 * 0.0192 = $48,000
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Relevant Literature – Market Cycles Rational Expectation Theory: Perfect market - Cummins and Outreville (1987)
Capacity Constraint Theory: Not perfect market - Winter(1988, 1991a, 1994) - Gron (1994) - Cummins and Danzon(1992) - Doherty and Garven(1995)
Risky Debt Theory: Insurer’s default risk - Harrington et. al. (1988,1994, 2004, 2005) - Cummins and Danzon(1997)
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Harrington (2004 & 2005) Proxy: Loss ratio development = Developed loss ratios -
Originally reported loss ratios
Argument: - Premium growth in the soft market is positively
correlated with loss ratio development - Excessive price cuts in the preceding soft market are
associated with upward claims costs development in the subsequent hard market Trigger the formation of hard market !
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Monitoring by Motivated Brokers
Insurer
Brokers
Contingent Comm.
Good Business
Clients
Identify Insurer
Long-TermRelation
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PNC
Another Description
SLNC
SNCSNC’D SC’ SC
SLC
P
Q
PNC’
PC’
PC
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Hypothesis and Data Data: - NAIC 1997-2005 - 5-year loss development - Focus on latter part of soft market 97-00
Hypothesis: - Insurers who pay greater contingent commissions are associated with smaller loss ratio development Cycles are dampened !
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Modeling (Firm-Specific Approach)
Problem: Endogeneity
LRDi,t = α + β1LnGrowthi,t + β2CONCOMi,t
+ β3ROAi,t + β4RBCi,t + β5Herfindahli,t + β6Longtaili,t + β7Sizei,t + β8Stocki,t+ β9Groupi,t + εi,t
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First-Stage: Tobit Regression CONCOMi,t = α + β1ROAi,t + β2 RBCi,t + β3 Herfindahli,t
+ β4Longtaili,t + β5Sizei,t + β6 Stocki,t + β7Groupi,t + εi,t
Second-Stage: IV Regression (Primary Interest) LRDi,t = α + β1LnGrowthi,t + β2 PredCONCOMPredCONCOMi,ti,t + β3ROAi,t + β4RBCi,t + β5 Herfindahli,t + β6 Longtaili,t + β7 Sizei,t
+ β8Stocki,t + β9Groupi,t + εi,t
Two-Stage Regression
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IV Regression (97-00, N=3,043)Covariates Estimate Robust Std. Error
Intercept -0.3667 0.4376LnGrowth 0.1644 0.09321*PredCONCOM -10.1420 1.2252***ROA -0.3368 0.08665***RBC 0.000548 0.000732Herfindahl -0.2769 0.1378**Longtail -0.1551 0.09797Size 0.03487 0.02072*Stock 0.1514 0.01584***Group 0.01540 0.05907-2log likelihood 9181.1
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Conclusion Consistent with Prior Literature: Stronger Premium Growth Greater LRD New Findings: Greater contingent commission payments Less severe upward loss development Further Research: - Longer period of data - Incorporate multi-period theoretical model
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Thank You !