We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …

the probability of being currently employed as well as in the time spent in paid employment, although the differences we …

influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …

This paper reviews the extant research on systemic risk in the insurance sector and outlines new areas of research in … organizations. The survey reveals that traditional insurance activity in the life, non-life, and reinsurance sectors neither …

This paper discusses the adequacy of insurance for managing cyber risk. To this end, we extract 994 cases of cyber …. These problems hinder the development of a sustainable cyber insurance market. We finish by discussing how cyber risk …

Using state-of-the-art frontier efficiency methodologies, we study the efficiency and productivity of Swiss insurance … subsectors. Moreover, we are the first to analyze the internationalization strategies of insurance companies, a topic of high … insurance sector. We find that productivity and efficiency in the Swiss insurance market have improved for the property …