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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 …
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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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Microfinance institutions, banking, growth and transmission channel : a GMM panel data analysis from developing countries
Banto, Jean Michel; Monsia, Atokê Fredia - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 79 (2021), pp. 126-150
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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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Growth effect of banks and microfinance : evidence from developing countries
Donou-Adonsou, Ficawoyi; Sylwester, Kevin - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 64 (2017), pp. 44-56
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Bank profitability and economic growth
Klein, Paul-Olivier; Weill, Laurent - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 84 (2022), pp. 183-199
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Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry
Krämer, Walter (contributor);  … - 2008
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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 …
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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
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