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withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of systematic financial and longevity risks. Partly because of … pension: the Personal Pension with Risk sharing (PPR). By unbundling and valuing the investment, (dis)saving, insurance and … risk-sharing functions of pensions, PPRs allow risk management and (dis)saving to be customized to the specific features of …
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to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face … basis risk associated with the index insurance, and with imperfect trust that promised payouts will be delivered. …
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that, contrary to what they profess, macroeconomic and political risk is not inhibiting the investment behavior of …
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We develop a dynamic model of investment, cash holdings, financing, and risk management policies in which firms face …-flow sensitivity of cash display a more realistic behavior than in prior models with financing frictions. In addition, risk management …
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the labour market for traders intensifies, banks optimally offer top traders contracts inducing them to take more risk … to reduced risk-taking by their top traders. …
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In this Paper we study the impact of credit risk transfer (CRT) on the stability and the efficiency of a financial …
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, borrowers take on less risk exposure than non-borrowers. A larger risk exposure by borrowers may occur as well, however …, borrowers' default policies render binary options useful instruments for lenders in hedging the credit-risk component of their … and volatility in contrast to the exogenously assumed constant mean and volatility in many credit risk models. We consider …
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Empirical testing of asymmetric information in the insurance market has uncovered a negative correlation between risk … insurance buyers have different tastes for risk and that 'individuals who are highly risk avoiding are more likely both to try … propitious selection argument does not imply negative correlation between risk levels and insurance purchases, be-cause it fails …
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between funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of uninsurable risk that are allocated in different ways by …
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This Paper tests the presence of multiple independent submarkets in the Italian motor insurance industry. Independence is motivated by administrative boundaries among provinces and by further locational reasons. We find that the independence effects are sufficient to induce a minimum degree of...
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