ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African long-term insurance industry is currently believed to be at animportant crossroads in its existence. The industry is haunted by concerns abouthigh cost structures, a lack of transparency in disclosure to policyholders, unfulfilledexpectations of policyholders...

We identify the impact of short-term interest rates on credit risk-taking by analyzing a comprehensive credit register from Spain, a country where for the last twenty years monetary policy was mostly decided abroad. Discrete choice, within borrower comparison and duration analyses show that...

Antiretroviral roll out has become a topic of concern to the public and the business community. Survival for people living with AIDS depends on antiretroviral treatment. To successfully roll out the provision of antiretroviral, resources from all sectors of society need to be harnessed. This...

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This thesis attempts to extend the research in the Corporate Social Performance – Corporate Financial Performance relationship. The studies conducted previously display mixed findings with no unified evidence of the relationship direction and impact. This study reviews the existing literature...

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On October 14, 2004, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer shook the entire insurance industry by filing a civil lawsuit against a group of insurance companies regarding their alleged price-fixing and bid-rigging. By using event study methodology, this study determines quantitatively the...

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2005.

The ambition of this article is to demonstrate positives, but also the fall back of the Solvency II and of the delayed and uncoordinated implementation among the national regulators.This article summarizes the trends in insurance market regulation following the introduction and consequent...