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Creating UGC Areas of Official Destination Websites: Is there a Recipe for Success? An Insight through Netnographic Research
Osti, Linda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
An analysis of the existing literature has demonstrated the importance of word of mouth as a source of information for potential tourists and service consumers. The growth of the Internet and interactive websites has lead to the creation of online communities that serve as points of reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678264
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Racial Disparities in Life Insurance Coverage
Harris, Timothy; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We evaluate the extent to which there are racial disparities in life insurance coverage using multiple years of the Survey of Income and Program Participation between 2001 and 2010. We find that African-Americans hold significantly more life insurance after controlling for other factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268352
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The current value of the mathematical provision: a financial risk prospect
Cocozza, Rosa; Di Lorenzo, Emilia; Sibillo, Marilena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper addresses the question of the calculation of the current value of the mathematical provision and moulds it in a deterministic and stochastic scenario, using a proper term structure of interest rates estimated by means of a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model. It provides a complete and original...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784959
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Methodological problems in solvency assessment of an insurance company
Cocozza, R; Di Lorenzo, E; Sibillo, M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The recent wide development and changes in insurance markets highlighted the necessity to map out the solvency analysis in a more complete framework. The approach we present in the paper comes up with an integrated analysis of the risk profile of an insurance business, taking into account the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794657
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A Dynamic Solvency Approach for Life Insurance
Cocozza, Rosa; Di Lorenzo, Emilia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper investigates risk management processes in life insurance, in a perspective consistent with the framework of Solvency II. The paper starts with the breakdown of the business dynamics. This analysis provides for a complete depiction of risk and value driver within life business. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794672
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Consequences of the financial crisis for the insurance markets of the world and Ukraine
Kozmenko, Olha; Kravchuk, Hanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The article presents analytical data regarding the influence of the global financial crisis on the activity of the insurance market of some countries. Special attention is given to the dynamics in the development of the insurance market of Ukraine, problems and perspectives of Ukrainian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110449
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Building on the trust of management: overcoming the paradoxes of principles based regulation
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper illustrates how trust in management can be consolidated through the order and mode of application of … with rules. “Whilst negotiating strategies are introduced initially to develop trust between the regulator and the … regulated, resort is made to more punitive strategies where an absence of trust in the compliance activity has been confirmed …
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Beyond Extended Phenotype Evolution of extended identity in order to reconcile study of humanity with biological evolution
Mezgebo, Taddese - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The question: “How much of biological evolution based theories, as they are understood presently, apply to human behaviour?” is highly controversial and perhaps highly politicized as well. The inference that human beings are evolutionarily programmed to have urges toward aggression, rape,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258986
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Trust and Arena Size. Expectations, Trust, and Institutions Co-Evolving, and Their Critical Population and Group Sizes.
Elsner, Wolfram; Schwardt, Henning - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We develop a formal approach to the emergence of institutionalized trust in the context of the evolution of cooperation …, with a particular focus on the relevance of the size dimension of this process. While trust in general has been widely … to the co-evolution of institutions, trust, and the size of their populations and carrier groups. This then also helps …
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