can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

, and climate change is predicted to intensify this problem. The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) scheme piloted in …

This paper introduces a new rationale for the existence of Directors' and Officers' (D&O) insurance. We use a model …-term increases in stock prices that do not maximize long run stock market value. We show that D&O insurance provides a convenient … in capital markets. The empirical results support the idea that both the insurance coverage and the premium are higher in …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and …

about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making … interest rates per se. This paper uses a large micro level data set of the German bank universe to examine how banks behave in … this uncharted territory. The evidence found suggests that bank’s business model, i.e. the share of overnight deposits …

bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel … and deposit insurance influence the risk-taking effects of taxation …

quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the profitability gap is partly driven by agency costs which arise if value … communication and travel costs over the last decade, the profitability gap is shown to decline over time. Apart from that, our … profitability gap. We discuss various implications of our findings. …

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates standard …