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 …

applying insurance theory is useful. We model risk neutral agents choosing portfolios of government bonds of n countries in a … mutual insurance fund covering accruing indemnities almost certainly. We also discuss necessary institutional arrangements …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

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 …

, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset …