Most insurance companies are involved in reinsurance activities. For the majority, reinsurance means laying-off portions of the risk that they have assumed in the primary insurance market. A few other companies assume these laid-off risks. Our concern is with the former companies; that is, those seeking to cede a portion of their risk.

Many recent studies of the demand for financial assets have been of an aggregative nature, using time-series data. However, some efforts to disaggregate and rely more heavily on cross-sectional data have yielded substantial improvements in discovering relationships not evident due to aggregation. The purpose of this paper is to continue in this spirit of disaggregation and to estimate the demand for one homogeneous type of financial asset, credit union shares, on a cross-sectional basis.

Robert H. Litzenberger, A. P. Budd, Errata: A Note on Geometric Mean Portfolio Selection and the Market Prices of Equities, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Jun., 1972)

This study has addressed itself to that group most immediately affected in corporate acquisition, the stockholders of acquired companies. We find that in the years observed, acquired company stockholders seem to have benefited from the acquisitions. This study differs from other studies of post-merger performance of the common stock of acquirors and not the performance of securities received by acquirees in exchange for their common stock. It should also be noted that most of the financial gain resulting from the acquisitions accrued at the time of merger because of substantial premiums paid by acquirors. While the stockholders of the acquired companies have, on average, benefited, these results tell us little of the effect of mergers on the welfare of society or, for that matter, of their effect on the stockholders of the acquiring firm. If the merger cannot be justified on the basis of some economy of scale or synergistic advantage, the newcomers reap their lucrative returns only at the expense of the old guard. If the acquiring firm pays a premium in acquisition on the basis of justifiably sound expectations of increased profits, social welfare is not necessarily enhanced. Increased profitability may not reflect increased efficiency; it may, for example, be a manifestation of decay in the competitive environment.

Robert A. Haugen, James L. Pappas, Equilibrium in the Pricing of Capital Assets, Risk-Bearing Debt Instruments, and the Question of Optimal Capital Structure: A Reply, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Sep., 1972), pp. 2005-2008

In this paper a recursive programming model is constructed and optimized so that a mix of bank assets may be selected. The purpose is to link optimization over time with a commercial bank asset management model.

A. James Boness, Andrew H. Chen, Som Jatusipitak, On Relations Among Stock Price Behavior and Changes in the Capital Structure of the Firm, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Sep., 1972), pp. 1967-1982

David K. Eiteman, Charles A. D'Ambrosio, James C. Van Horne, [Outlook for the Securities Industry]: Discussion, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 2, Supplement: Outlook for the Securities Industry (Mar., 1972), pp. 1702-1705