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This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A universal life policies, and variable annuities with guaranteed minimum maturity and death benefits, when investment returns are stochastic and modeled by normal or variance...
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study reveals that the bank-specific factors are the most influential on banks’ profitability, and to a lesser extent the …
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A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...
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The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...
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structural crisis of capitalism, identifies two broad streams within the literature dealing, in turn, with aggregate demand and … profitability problems, and proceeds to concentrate on an analysis of issues surrounding the profitability problem in two steps …. First, evidence on profitability trends for the Nonfarm Nonfinancial Corporate Business, the Nonfinancial Corporate Business …
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Das Geschehen auf den Finanzmärkten hängt vom individuellen Verhalten ab, wird aber auch wesentlich bestimmt durch die Ausgestaltung des Finanzsystems, das heisst durch die Rollen, die den einzelnen Akteure zugewiesen werden, und durch die Regeln für die Interaktion der verschiedenen Rollen....
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the Great Recession, what visions they develop about future development of capitalism and to which extent these different …
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-based on self-regulated and efficient markets. Although laissez-faire capitalism is intrinsically unstable, the lessons of the … regulations that led to the '30 glorious years of capitalism' (1948-77) and that could have helped avoid a financial crisis as … to predict. It will not be financialized, but the glory years' tendencies toward a global and knowledge-based capitalism …
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In this paper the euro crisis is viewed as the most recent episode of the crisis of financedominated capitalism …. Therefore, two major features of finance-dominated capitalism, the increasing inequality of income distribution and the rising … alternative macroeconomic policy approach tackling the basic contradictions of financedominated capitalism and the deficiencies of …
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