Switzerland. Private U.S. but not Swiss insurance has a hedging effect for consumers, while both social insurance schemes expose … correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage …. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively correlated risks. It can be shown that insurance contributes to a reduction of …

There exist a vast number of studies on the banking industry. However, the insurance industry remains relatively … unexplored. Increasingly, Austrian insurance institutions are becoming important as financial intermediaries in the domestic … structure, conduct and performance (SCP) approach to a sample of 52 Austrian insurance firms. The main finding is that the …

This article presents an overview of the contemporary German insurance market, its structure, players, and development … trends. First, brief information about the history of the insurance industry in Germany is provided. Second, the contemporary … market is analyzed in terms of its legal and economic structure, with statistics on the number of companies, insurance …

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 …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …