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Micro Foundations of Savings Behavior in Urban Pakistan
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Savings rate in Pakistan is one of the lowest in the regional countries. As a result, investment to GDP ratio has been … the role of savings in long term economic growth. There have been studies in past on the macroeconomic determinants of … savings in Pakistan. But, few studies have explored micro foundations of savings behavior in Pakistan. This study uses primary …
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Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds
Blake, David; Boardman, Tom; Cairns, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
pension savings market - both defined contribution and defined benefit - together with a more efficient annuity market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367987
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Global financial crisis and its impact on the financial system of Kosovo
Ramosaj, Berim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The Kosovo’s Financial Sector is one of the newest financial sectors in Eastern Europe whose developments began in early 2000. Kosovo's banking sector consists of 8 privately owned commercial banks, the insurance companies which make up 5% of total financial sector assets by 10 insurance...
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Endogenous financial literacy, saving and stock market participation
Spataro, Luca; Corsini, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, savings and stock market participation are interconnected decisions. However, to the best of our knowledge, a theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113360
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Demand Spillovers and Market Outcomes in the Mutual Fund Industry
Gavazza, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
When consumers concentrate their purchases at a single firm, a firm that offers more products than its rivals can gain market share for all its other products, as well. These spillovers induce firms to compete by offering a greater variety of products rather than lower prices, and a natural...
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Lifecycle and fixed portfolio allocation strategies: a performance comparison for emerging market countries
Kumara, Ajantha Sisira; Pfau, Wade Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study compares the performance of various fixed and lifecycle portfolio strategies for the accumulation phase of retirement planning in emerging market countries. With an expected utility framework and a bootstrapped Monte Carlo procedure, we find that the majority of emerging market...
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The Demand for Enhanced Annuities
Schuhmacher, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In enhanced annuities, the annuity payment depends on one's state of health at some contracted date while in "standard annuities", it does not. The focus of this paper is on an annuity market where "standard" and enhanced annuities areoffered simultaneously. When all insured know equally well on...
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Challenges to Solvency II Reform in Insurance Industry
Ramosaj, Berim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Insurance Industry is going through a very important stage of its transformation - the transition from the classical system of management into a risk-based management. These changes were launched in Europe by international organizations which deal with the development of the necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728065
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Venture capital optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in diffusion - type financial systems in global capital markets with nonlinearities
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The condensed research article presents some innovative research results on the venture capital optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in the diffusion-type financial systems in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the incomplete information, which are...
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Credit Derivatives in Managing Off Balance Sheet Risks by Banks
Cakir, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Credit risk has been a worrying type of risk for financial managers. Fortunately, a recent market development –credit derivatives- has made the credit risk more manageable. The loan portfolio management has become more practicable than it used to be in the past. However, credit derivatives are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112915