differences in financial factors, which may reflect differences in country risk and the legal and regulatory framework that banks …

uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of Ukrainian banks collected from NBU and covering the period 2003q1-2005q3 …. The results indicate that banks increase their lending ratios when macroeconomic uncertainty decreases. We demonstrate … that our results are robust with respect to the measurement of macroeconomic uncertainty. The reaction of banks to changes …

significant differences between the investors which are linked to banks and those financiers which are not. Although, the …

This paper considers the issue of forecasting financial fragility of banks and insurances using a panel data set of … are important in the performance of banks and insurances, analyze the influences of a number of observable factors on … banking and insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors …

earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I analyse the expected value and variance of income in self …-employment entry and exit under risk are estimated, which include a standard risk aversion parameter. The model predicts that the …

parameter of risk aversion. The simulation results indicate that flatter tax systems do not encourage, but rather discourage … people from choosing self-employment. This is explained by the reduction of entrepreneurs' income risk through progressive …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between bank risk and sovereign credit risk in the euro area. Using … risk and bank risk, with the former being overall more important in explaining bank risk, than vice versa. The paper … bailout policies have reduced solvency risk in the banking sector, but partly at the expense of raising the credit risk of …

This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among low-income people in southern … types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance product - and how their negative and/or positive evaluations have … come about. The evidence indicates that (micro)insurance is mostly positively perceived by the participants of the focus …