risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …

case of the Italian earthquake insurance. In this sense, we examine in detail the vulnerability definition and its … relevance for citizens and for insurance companies. Then we investigate the Italian insurance market characterized by a very low … penetration of natural disasters insurance and the potential effects of a recent Government initiative called 'Sisma Bonus'. The …

European legislation for the prudential regulation of insurance and reinsurance sector has existed since the 1970s … represents a crucial modernization of European insurance regulation. Each of these regimes prescribes its own rules for the …

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 …

theoretical background for the regulation of financial institutions, especially insurance and banking companies, and, finally …

In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … our model. Banks increased lending to the agricultural sector in counties with higher insurance coverage after 1980, even …

This research paper is focused on an important topic in the economic literature, more precisely how the insurance … the insurance sector on economic growth for three countries: France, United Kingdom and Italy, with data collected for the … indicate the variation in the effects of insurance instruments due to the peculiarity of each economy and the way in which each …