-score approaches to examine which one best fits insurance companies. The authors use a final dataset of 183 firms (1,382 observations … understanding of insurance firms' risk factors. Originality/value - To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first … to examine and compare different approaches to calculating Z-scores in the insurance sector. The few available results on …

Based on a review of international and regional responses to the global financial and economic crisis and its …

the crisis and the rest. Our estimates imply that these firms suffered an additional employment drop between 3 and 13 …

the crisis and the rest. Our estimates imply that these firms suffered an additional employment drop between 3 and 13 …

finance, the crisis highlights the necessity of addressing a range of issues across the region. First, Asian approaches to …The global financial and economic crisis marks an important turning point for finance and the Asian growth model …. At the same time, while the region has not been at the center of the global crisis - in contrast to the Asian financial …

extended to riskier borrowers and ultimately proved ruinous. In the credit crisis that began in late 1825, the value of the …

the crisis was triggered abroad, the current high level of distressed debt in various transition countries mainly reflects … a strong positive relationship between pre-crisis house price increases, house price collapses during the crisis and … approaches in which banks restructure NPLs on a case-by-case basis to more centralised options, such as a “London approach”, bad …

trust is the main error the Eurogroup committed last Friday. We offer a proposal for the resolution of the crisis in Cyprus …