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Global diversification of financial institutions, including the insurance sector, has proven beneficial to many … distribution channels. This paper aims to critically evaluate the liberalisation process of India's insurance sector and the impact … it has had on the sector, both life and non-life segments. As India is in the process of opening its insurance sector to …
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management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it …
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methods for financing based on experiences of other countries. Then the focus of the paper shifts towards insurance and …
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current deposit insurance would be eliminated: the FDIC would now have in place a program that would dissuade banks from moral …
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the Indian banking, capital markets, pensions and insurance sub-sectors and past episodes of egregious wrongdoing. The …
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to mitigate agricultural risks is to have a robust insurance system. Although crop insurance has been in the country … insurance, a new crop insurance scheme was launched on Baisakhi day, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), from Kharif 2016 … governments to the insurance companies, etc. The litmus test of any crop insurance program is quick assessment of crop damages and …
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We study how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) influenced the behavior of Agency mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) - a set of institutions identified by the Financial Stability Oversight Council as posing systemic risk. We document that Agency mortgage REITs: [i] equity...
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We study a new class of semiparametric instrumental variables models with the structural function represented by a partially varying coefficient functional form. Under this representation, the models are linear in the endogenous/exogenous components with unknown constant or functional...
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payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm …
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disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability of … Belize's public finance to the occurrence of hurricanes and the potential impact of insurance instruments in reducing that … vulnerability. The paper finds that catastrophic risk insurance significantly improves Belize's debt sustainability. In addition …
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