Sweden in the areas of insurance sector regulation and supervision. The regulatory and supervisory framework has been … recommended to strengthen solvency regulation further. Solvency II should be applied in full to occupational pensions insurance …

preserving financial stability. While the legal, regulatory, and supervisory frameworks for banking and insurance sector have …

privately observable, idiosyncratic random events. The information structure precludes conventional insurance arrangements …. However, a financial institution -- perhaps best viewed as a savings bank -- can provide partial insurance by generating a …, resulting in a level of expected utility higher than that achievable in simple security markets. Insurance is incomplete because …

We investigate how banking relationships that combine lending and underwriting services affect the terms of lending … risk insurance, which is manifested in a reduced demand for lines of credit. We also find evidence of a “road showâ …

service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in … these services by 2007 (and for banking, perhaps in the world), the starting point for implementing these policy changes …

. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity …