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Remittances, banking status and the usage of insurance schemes
Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Ströh de Martínez, … - 2010
can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … respondent has a formal funeral cover increases with income and banking status. However, it is lower for individuals receiving … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983213
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U.S. economic growth since 1870 : one big wave?
Gordon, Robert J. - In: The American economic review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 123-128
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001408302
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Stock markets, banks and long run economics growth : a panel cointegration-based analysis
Cavenaile, Laurent; Gengenbach, Christian; Palm, Franz C. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223077
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Granularity in banking and growth : does financial openness matter?
Bremus, Franziska; Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
of itself, and it may also influence concentration in banking and thus the impact of bank-specific shocks for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786228
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The dynamics of finance-growth-inequality nexus : theory and evidence for India
Pranab Kumar Das; Ganguli, Bhaswati; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2018
The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality "nexus" in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study attempts to...
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Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry
Krämer, Walter (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647290
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Consumption inequality and partial insurance
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 5, pp. 1887-1921
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Informal risk sharing, index insurance, and risk taking in developing countries
Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - In: The American economic review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 375-380
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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621724
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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - In: The American economic review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2499-2529
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247768