This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the implementation of China’s New Cooperative Medical … are still weaknesses. Most importantly, the program clearly does not meet its goal of providing insurance against …

Purpose – This paper explored factors that impact insurance choices of demand (farmers) and supply (insurance companies … tendency from farmers and partially observe the supply tendency from insurance companies. Using bi-vairate probit model, a … joint estimation of insurance decisions of both supply and demand sides suggested that factors perform different roles in …

for the total insurance premium of 35 insurance companies in China during the December 2005 to May 2011 period are used …This study applies the Sequential Panel Selection Method to investigate whether the growth rate of total insurance … implications for insurance regulation, insurance market construction, and policyholder protection. …

We use the agency theory to conduct a novel test of the strategic use of property insurance in China's corporate sector …. With regard to our main test hypotheses, we find that the incidence of property insurance purchased is directly related to … liquidity becomes insignificant while firms' growth opportunities are now inversely related to the amount of insurance purchased …

This paper examines China's emergence as a global player in international markets over the last few decades. It … provides an overview of China's trade policy environment following the country's process of market opening and joining the WTO …. The report analyses China’s role in international processing activities and moving up the global value chain. It also …

a leading cause of poverty in rural China. To address the poor state of health care, the Chinese government unveiled the …

€™s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and …

-funded commercial pension insurance contributions in Shanghai's zhenbao (town insurance) program, introduced by the Shanghai Government … characteristics that make them more influential constituencies will be more likely to receive voluntary commercial pension insurance … insurance scheme in one district as at the end of 2004. Findings – The study finds that only a small proportion of individuals …

Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … problems, the government has launched a number of reforms. New insurance schemes have been rolled out both in rural and urban …