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This work focuses on developing an internal model for equity risk under Solvency II. We have used monthly data for the series of Ibex 35, Cac 40, FTSE 100 and Dax in the period between January 1992 and December 2008. This work fits by maximum likelihood method the model of normal returns, based...
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The paper examines whether there is an economic justification for a macroprudential approach to insurance regulation … characterisation of a macroprudential approach to financial regulation as well as an explanation of the functions the insurance … prevailing opinion, the paper finds that the insurance industry is of systemic relevance, at least in terms of the efficient …
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In this paper we extend the Stock and Watson’s (Leading economic indicators, new approaches and forecasting records, 1991) single-index dynamic factor model in an econometric framework that has the advantage of combining information from real and financial indicators published at different...
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The identification of real estate cycles has always been an important issue in the study of real estate. This paper selected as indicators the Composite Leading Index and Reference Cycle Index regarding the real estate cycles in Taiwan, as they incorporate real estate activities, such as...
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Nach den Wahlen im September sind größere Änderungen beim Einkommensteuertarif zu erwarten. Ferner wird häufig gefordert, Familien mit Kindern stärker zu fördern. Aus diesem Anlass hat das DIW Berlin einige Änderungsvorschläge hinsichtlich ihrer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen...
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We present a medium-scale dynamic factor model to estimate and forecast the rate of growth of the Spanish economy in the very short term. The intermediate size of the model overcomes the serious specification problems associated with large scale-models and the implicit loss of information of...
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The financial and the insurance markets are increasingly penetrating each other, accounting for the fact that insurers … opportunities, although it is not devoid of faults, mercilessly exposed by consecutive stock market collapses. Do insurance … research shows that on average it maintains a relatively high level. -- insurance ; capital market ; investment …
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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 …
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This paper reviews the operational efficiency of the Nigeria insurance industry from a historical perspective. Our … paper traced the origin of insurance in Nigeria to 1918, when marine insurance was dominant in the economy. The paper shows … that despite the long history of insurance industry in Nigeria, the sector's operational efficiency has remained sub …
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The purpose of the paper is to provide some support to the thesis that insurance may reduce the cost of capital in a … insurance as a retrospective (post-loss) risk financing tool and the risk transfer mechanism upon it. As the risk financing tool … insurance reduces the need for the balance-sheet capital in a company and thus the financial distress costs. Also, insurance may …
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