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The privatization effects on Iran insurance industry
Karimi, Mohammad; Cheshomi, Ali; Hassannezhad Kashani, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
from below is effective more than ownership privatization in competition extension in insurance industry and spread of its …Two methods of privatization through ownership transfer and privatization from below are more proper than other ones …. The privatization program in Iran insurance industry is performed through privatization from below initiated from 2000 and …
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El seguro de depósito dentro de la red de seguridad financiera.
Heinrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The text explores generally whether recommendations relating to deposit insurance are international guidleines or mandatory rules, explores the role of deposit insurance as one of several elements in the financial safety net, and offers an outlook to a future with more research and cross-border...
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Global financial crisis and its impact on the financial system of Kosovo
Ramosaj, Berim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The Kosovo’s Financial Sector is one of the newest financial sectors in Eastern Europe whose developments began in early 2000. Kosovo's banking sector consists of 8 privately owned commercial banks, the insurance companies which make up 5% of total financial sector assets by 10 insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728057
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Prompt corrective action provisions: are insurance companies and investment banks next?
Tatom, John; A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In 1991, Congress passed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). The Act provided for risk-based deposit insurance premiums, put explicit limits on the application of a “too big to fail” principle for banks and required that examiners implement “prompt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835744
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Banks, insurance companies, and discrimination
Block, Walter; Snow, Nicholas; Stringham, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article examines some of the reasons why banks and insurance companies have been accused of discrimination, and shows that this is by and large a false accusation. Economic analysis demonstrates that racial discrimination is not a profit-maximizing strategy. Actually, unwise public policies...
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Determinants of the Rate of Return on Commercial Bank Assets, 1933-1998
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
Improvement Act of 1991. Finally, increased financial services industry competition has reduced the ROA. …
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Microinsurance: The Choice among Delivery and Regulatory Mechanisms
Ahsan, Syed M; Mahmud, Minhaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyse the choice of the appropriate delivery mechanism(s) relevant to various types of microinsurance products in a developmental context like that prevailing in Bangladesh. By examining various delivery mechanisms under different institutional contexts, we analyse the conditions under...
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The Reform of Federal Deposit Insurance
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
In the first essay, Calomiris argues that the most desirable means by which to achieve banking system stability is to permit unlimited branch banking combined with the type of privately administered formal deposit insurance programs of antebellum Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa. In the second essay,...
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The Regional Distribution of Bank Closings in the United States: An Extension of the Amos Analysis
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
1982-1992 time period. The estimation reveals that the bank failure rate is a decreasing function of the average mortgage …
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The Development of the Hungarian Banking Sector Prior to Basel II
Csizmazia, Roland Attila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Although the economic transition started in the early of 1990s, Hungary had a pioneer role in introducing the two-tier banking system within the former Soviet Eastern Block. The modernization of the banking system was unexpectedly far-reaching as Western banks were allowed to participate in the...
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