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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...
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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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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,...
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How to overcome shortcomings of the available comparative data on student mobility in Europe? Currently, inward student mobility in the EU Member States is measured by means of the criterion foreign citizenship. In the wake of changing social realities in Europe, however, foreign citizenship is...
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This study explores the extent to which European students experience financial and other barriers to participation in …, with the exception of financial issues, which are an important concern for students everywhere. ERASMUS participation is … associated with students’ socio-economic background, primarily influenced by individual preferences and cost …
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Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a SVAR model some fiscal policy regimes, i.e. a u0094set of rulesu0094 for the implementation of fiscal policies. Second, we identify the fiscal policy shocks related to different...
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There has been much discussion of the differences in macroeconomic performance and prospects between the US, Japan and the euro area. Using Markov-switching techniques, in this paper we identify and compare specifically their major business-cycle features and examine the case for a common...
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