Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on how a firm's size is related to risk taking of Malaysia … insurance firm size and underwriting risk. For the robustness test, the results of the analysis using changes in data broadly … culprit behind excessive risk taking by insurance firms of large proportions. A number of regulatory concerns have been raised …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on how a firm's size is related to risk taking of Malaysia … insurance firm size and underwriting risk. For the robustness test, the results of the analysis using changes in data broadly … culprit behind excessive risk taking by insurance firms of large proportions. A number of regulatory concerns have been raised …

The economic theory of decision making under risk has seen remarkable advances over the 50 years since Pratt’s (1964 …) characterization of risk aversion under expected utility. We review developments in three key areas to which Louis Eeckhoudt has made … significant contributions: (1) increases in risk and risk taking; (2) self-protection and risk aversion; and (3) higher (and lower …

reduces the risk of legal complications and legal deals. The INCOTERMS rules describe mainly the tasks, costs and risks …

While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … tools can independently address drought risk and demonstrate the potential for these tools to be combined in a complementary … risk management product. Using a discrete choice experiment, we assess farmers’ preferences for these two tools …