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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system
Manna,Michele - 2004
This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...
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Agricultural Insurance Schemes : Final Deliverable ; Report
Maria BIELZA DIAZ-CANEJA; Costanza Giulia CONTE; Remo … - Institute for the Protection and Security of the … - 2008
This study focuses on the assessment of index tools for agricultural insurances. Index insurances basically differ from traditional agricultural insurances in that they do not refer to the actual farm losses, but to the losses evaluated from an index. This index can be, for example, some area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439188
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Study on consumers’ decision making in insurance services : a behavioural economics perspective ; Final report
Suter, James (contributor); Duke, Charlotte (contributor);  … - London Economics; Ipsos; VVA Europe - 2017
involved the collection of qualitative and quantitative evidence on both demand for and supply of insurance and explored … consumers’ interest in and barriers to purchasing insurance cross-border. In particular, the experiments tested the … cross-border insurance issues, such as the provision of information to consumers, the purchasing process, and levels of …
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Insurance of railway undertakings
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Energie und … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640268
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Placement of financial instruments with depositors, retail investors and policy holders ("self placement") : reminder to credit institutions and insurance undertakings about applic...
European Securities and Makets Authority - 2014
As part of their respective mandates to protect investors, depositors and policy holders, the three European Supervisory Authorities, the EBA, ESMA and EIOPA are concerned about the practices used by some financial institutions to comply with enhanced prudential requirements under the CRD/R IV,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392286
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Spain's external deficit: how is it financed?
Cabrero, Alberto; Maza, Luis Angel; Yaniz, Javier - 2007
In 2006 the external net borrowing requirement of the Spanish economy was almost 8% of GDP, after having been in balance between 1993 and 1998. This increased borrowing requirement is the financial mirror image of a growth model, in which corporate and households' investments are generating an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641175
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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels
Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010
One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has...
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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels : Company case studies
Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010
This report examines whether investment funds – in particular, private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds – help to revive underperforming companies and thereby contribute to employment growth or whether, on the contrary, they strive to maximise financial returns at the expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903926
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Consumer vulnerability across key markets in the European Union : Final report
Austgulen, Marthe H. (contributor) - London Economics; VVA Consulting; Ipsos Mori consortium - 2016
The study examines the incidence of vulnerability across the EU28 and Iceland and Norway, and the factors explaining any observed vulnerability. The study uses a range of information sources (literature review, stakeholder interviews, consumer survey and consumer experiments in five countries)...
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