With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … financial sectors leading to the blurring of boundaries between banking, insurance and securities activities. The aim of this … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …

This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural … growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of Germany as an example, the paper demonstrates that the obstacles facing … system change are numerous, including failure to recognise the role of state guarantees in enabling private insurance markets …

degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent and transitory income shocks. We find some partial insurance of permanent … income shocks with more insurance possibilities for the college educated and those nearing retirement. We find little …

This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks … cases of self-insurance and the complete markets assumption. We assess the degree of insurance over and above self-insurance … conventional demand analysis rather than reduced form imputation procedures. Our results point to some partial insurance but reject …

how to address non-permanence have been proposed, these being temporary credits and insurance of emission reduction … credits. This paper discusses the practicality and potential difficulties of the insurance approach for addressing non … against common insurability criteria. The marketability of the insurance product and several technical questions in relation …

Mutual insurance companies and stock insurance companies are different forms of organized risk sharing: policyholders … necessary for a stock insurer to offer insurance at a fair premium, but not for a mutual. In the presence of an ownermanager …

We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamiccontract has insurance companies offeringcontracts where the terms of the contract … on individualpast performance (like in car insurances). Weinvestigate whether allowing insurance companies to offer …

Podkarpackie voivodship. Based on the results of research, the article will present both the current state of insurance in local … insurance business in LGUs. The primary objective of this paper is to determine the procedures for concluding the insurance in … LGUs, and also defining the types of insurance most often executed by these entities, and indication of the intermediaries …