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From Sickness to Death: The Financial Viability of the English Friendly Societies And Coming of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1875-1908

Broten, Nicholas - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Traditional theories of the origins of the welfare state have emphasized the financial weakness of Britain’s largest provider of mutual insurance in the late 19th century, the friendly societies. These theories share common implications with contemporary theories of institutional change...

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Social Insurance Regimes: crises and ‘reform’ in the Argentine and Brazil,since c. 1900

Lewis, Colin M.; Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

The paper examines the structural and organisational problems of social insurancesystems in Brazil and the Argentine in order to illuminate current debates about pension‘reform’. Much of the present discussion depicts social insurance ‘crisis’ as a modernphenomenon. Similarly,...

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Deposit Insurance, Bank Incentives, and the Design of Regulatory Policy

Kupiec, Paul; O’Brien, James M. - Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation <McLean, Va.>; … - 1998

A large literature studies bank regulatory policies intendedto control moral hazard problems associated with … depositinsurance and optimal regulatory design. Much of theanalysis has focused on uniform bank capital requirements,risk-based capital ….All formal analyses employ highly simplifiedtreatments of an individual bank or banking system. Thisstudy is concerned with the …

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Systemic Risk and Deposit Insurance Premiums

Acharya, Viral V.; Santos, João A. C.; Yorulmazer, Tanju - London School of Economics and Political Science

),1 which leads to “fire-sale”–related pecuniaryexternalities; and bank interconnectedness (Allen and Gale2000; Kahn and Santos …

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