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This article traces the evolution of Latin American studies in Serbia, from the emergence of research on Latin America …
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La gestion de projet joue un rôle important dans le monde entier aujourd'hui - pour le développement de nouvelles connaissances, de nouveaux produits, et pour la mise en œuvre de changement et de solutions client (Söderlund, 2008). La très grande majorité des projets présentés dans la...
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This paper aims at presenting the insurance cost-of-capital com- putation issue. It highlights two methodologies … premium adopted by supervisory authorities. These strategies are based either on market return of insurance companies or on … the modelling of insurance business profit and loss. We estimate a cost-of-capital rate corre- sponding to these basic …
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. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and … design such projects in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium, is …
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The paper investigates whether, as is often suggested by the literature, diversification towards the non-agricultural sector is considered as a risk-mitigating strategy by rural Pakistani households. This issue has already been addressed but usually as an ex post mechanism, i.e. smoothing...
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We study an economy where intermediaries compete over contracts in a nonexclusive insurance market affected by moral …
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We consider a competitive insurance market in which agents can privately enter into multicontractual insurance … relationships and undertake hidden actions. We study the existence of linear equilibria when insurance companies do not have any … types of linear equilibria could exist: A first one in which insurance companies make zero expected profits, and a second …
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The recent fi nancial crisis has lead the IASB to settle new reporting standards for fi nancial instruments. The extended ability to measure some debt instruments at amortized cost is associated with a new impairment losses mechanism: Expected Credit Losses. In this paper, after a brief...
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systems may coexist: insurance and assistance. Insurance level is set by consensus between firms and unions, whereas … assistance expenditures are set by a majority vote in parliament. Social insurance can be manipulated to influence preferences in … emergence of a mixed model: assistance increases to complement existing insurance, not to replace it. A time series cross …
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In this paper, we examine the stock market reaction to industrial disasters. We consider an original sample of 64 explosions in chemical plants and refineries worldwide over the period 1990-2005. A quarter of the accidents resulted in a toxic release, and half of them caused at least one death...
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