correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage …. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively correlated risks. It can be shown that insurance contributes to a reduction of … insurance. Analyzing deviations from trend in aggregate insurance payments, one finds the following for the United States and …

payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm …

provide evidence supporting imitation effects, rather than social learning or constraint interaction. …

the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards, with a significantly higher probability if his team is behind the …

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 …

management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it …

India's insurance sector has been growing dynamically in the last couple of years. Despite the suite of reforms that … have been implemented to stoke the sector's growth, it still has a long way to go, as its share in the global insurance … market remains abysmally low. In this paper, we analyse the Indian insurance sector and trace its evolution and growth. We …

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 …

methods for financing based on experiences of other countries. Then the focus of the paper shifts towards insurance and …

to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we … successfully nurtured its high-end human capital for technological learning and is poised for a smooth transition to a knowledge …