separating equilibrium in which each agent obtains an actuarially fair insurance. If the individual health types are unobservable …

fair perfect insurance. In the SE all agents are savers throughout their lives. The informational asymmetry precludes the … rather small, whilst those of PE versus no annuities at all (NAE) are rather large. An imperfect insurance is better than no … insurance at all, both at the microeconomic and at the macroeconomic level …

This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance …

This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …