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O'Brien D. J., Phillips J. L. and Patsiorkovsky V. V. (2005) Linking indigenous bonding and bridging social capital, Regional Studies 39 , 1041-1051. Reconciling indigenous bonding and bridging social capital remains a difficult issue in economic development and global issues of inequality. A...
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agricultural sector and to institute contract-based production of commodities, have raised questions about the economic position of …
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Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten …Fraudulent claims are a well-known phenomenon and a serious problem in some insurance markets. The purpose of this … paper is twofold. First of all, it explains why insurance fraud can be considered as a contractual problem. Consequently …
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or benefiting from a collective activity. In these situations, a group must decide whether to provide insurance to the …
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We analyze a mutual fire insurance mechanism used in Andorra, which is called La Crema in the local language. This …
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This paper looks at the dynamic properties of insurance contracts when insurers have better technology at preventing … are not possible, the insured is faced with a commitment problem since he may want to renegotiate the contract or change …
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This paper characterizes the optimal insurance contract in an environment where an informed agent can misrepresent the …), the optimal contract is such that higher losses are over-compensated while lower losses are on average under …-compensated. The amount by which higher losses are over-compensated decreases as the loss increases. The optimal contract may then be …
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This paper characterizes the optimal insurance contract in an environment where an informed agent can misrepresent the …), the optimal contract is such that higher losses are over-compensated while lower losses are on average under …-compensated. The amount by which higher losses are over-compensated decreases as the loss increases. The optimal contract may then be …
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