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Capital Requirements, Disclosure, and Supervision in the European Insurance Industry provides an in-depth analysis of Solvency II´s issues by combining both a theoretical approach and evidence of the empirical implications and effects on the European insurance industry.

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1. Capital Requirements, Disclosure and Supervision in the European Insurance Industry PART I: THE FRAMEWORK OF SOLVENCY II AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EUROPEAN INSURANCE MARKET 2. Solvency II Directive and the Key Features of the European Insurance Market PART II: SOLVENCY: REQUIREMENTS AND SUPERVISION 3. The Solvency Capital Requirement 4. The Supervision of Insurance Companies PART III: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REQUIRED REPORTING AND ACTUAL DISCLOSURE 5. The Regulatory Framework for Market Discipline 6. The Actual Disclosure 7. Solvency II: A Sea of Opportunities

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Maria Grazia Starita is Lecturer in Financial Markets and Institutions in the Department of Management Studies and Quantitative Methods, University of Naples ´Parthenope´, Italy, where she teaches Management of Insurance Companies and Corporate Finance. Her main research interests are insurance companies, pension funds, bank-firm relationship, disclosure, and Islamic finance.

Irma Malafronte holds a PhD in Banking and Finance from the University of Rome ´Tor Vergata´, Italy. She conducts research in Financial Markets and Institutions in the Department of Management Studies and Quantitative Methods, University of Naples ´Parthenope´, Italy. Her main research interests are insurance companies, disclosure, bank-firm relationship, and market discipline.

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