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Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects
Giesbert, Lena; Steiner, Susan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652506
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Forecasting the Fragility of the Banking and Insurance Sector
Bernoth, Kerstin; Pick, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
banking and insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963890
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Competitive Screening in Insurance Markets with Endogenous Labor Supply
Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We examine equilibria in competitive insurance markets when individuals take unobservable labor supply decisions …. Precautionary labor motives intro-duce countervailing incentives in the insurance market, and equilibria with positive profits can … insurance market since precautionary labor effects lead to differences in income and hence risk aversion. Under these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963894
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Development under Regulation: The Way of the Ukrainian Insurance Market
Badunenko, Oleg; Grechanyuk, Bogdana; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This study is intended to assess the introduction of increased capitalization requirements for Ukrainian insurance … operating under increasing returns to scale. Additionally, we show that the Ukrainian insurance industry experiences significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068962
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An Economic Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration with Biochar in Germany
Teichmann, Isabel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
Biochar is a carbon-rich solid obtained from the heating of biomass in the (near) absence of oxygen in a process called pyrolysis. Its soil incorporation is increasingly discussed as a means to sequester carbon in soils and, thus, to help mitigate climate change. When deployed in agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269014
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Climate Change and Modelling of Extreme Temperatures in Switzerland
Siliverstovs, Boriss; Ötsch, Rainald; Kemfert, Claudia; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This study models maximum temperatures in Switzerland monitored in twelve locations using the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) distribution. The parameters of the GEV distribution are determined within a Bayesian framework. We find that the parameters of the underlying distribution underwent a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963698
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The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector
Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation - to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963779
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Innovation in Concentrating Solar Power Technologies: A Study Drawing on Patent Data
Braun, Frauke G.; Hooper, Liz; Wand, Robert; Zloczysti, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552723
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Implementing CDM Limits in the EU ETS: A Law and Economics Approach
Vasa, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the main instrument to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Subject to a country specific limit, installations in the EU ETS can use EU allowances (EUA) and certified emissions reductions (CERs) generated through the Clean Development Mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526698
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Europe's Twenties: A Study Using the WIATEC Model
Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans; Truong, Truong - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In this paper, we use a computable general equilibrium model (WIATEC) to study the potential impact of implementing Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and within the range of recent empirical evidence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068836