This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries … insurance industries of the ASEAN5 economies - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It has four main … sections. Section II surveys the market structure and overall performance of the insurance industry in the ASEAN5 economies …

productivity for the insurance industry. As an example we construct efficiency frontiers for the years 1992 through 1996 for the … Austrian insurance industry using a Data Envelopment Analysis. The results provide yardsticks for efficiency comparisons from a …

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 …

insurance industry. We show via an event study that insurance markets worldwide are quite resilient to unexpected losses to …

insurance industry stock indices. We show via an event study that insurance sectors worldwide are quite resilient, in a market … value sense, to unexpected losses to capital: our data provide evidence that equity market investors believe that insurance …

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 …

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 …