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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255609
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255734
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Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data
Abbring, Jaap; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Zavadil, Tibor - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255913
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Retirement with Perfect Insurance
Kula, Grzegorz - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144432
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Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data
Abbring, Jaap; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Zavadil, Tibor - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137061
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Institute
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137073
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Retirement with Perfect Insurance
Kula, Grzegorz - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257396
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137189
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257108
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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets
Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255495