We empirically analyze the costs and benefits of financial regulation based on a survey of 76 insurers from Austria … also at the company level. This allows us to empirically test fundamental principles of financial regulation such as … proportionality: the intensity of regulation should reflect the firm-specific amount and complexity of the risk taken. Our empirical …

Regulation of any market can either promote or impede its development, thus affecting social welfare. In this paper, we … are concerned with the impact of regulation in microinsurance markets. We evaluate existing and potential regulatory …

We empirically analyze the costs and benefits of financial regulation based on a survey of 76 insurers from Austria … company level. This allows us to empirically test fundamental principles of financial regulation such as proportionality: the … intensity of regulation should reflect the firm-specific amount and complexity of the risk taken. Our empirical findings do not …

influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …

This paper reviews the extant research on systemic risk in the insurance sector and outlines new areas of research in … organizations. The survey reveals that traditional insurance activity in the life, non-life, and reinsurance sectors neither …

influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …