exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …

ex-ante preparedness is needed to manage the risks. The paper discusses sovereign experience with disaster insurance as a … key instrument to mitigate the risks; proposes ways to judge the adequacy of insurance; and considers ways to enhance its … use by vulnerable countries. The paper especially aims to inform policy decisions on disaster insurance. Through …

stability of the banking system, a government’s commitment to shield banks from contagion may increase their incentives to … invest prudently and so reduce bank risk taking. This systemic insurance effect will be relatively more important when …