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correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage …. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively correlated risks. It can be shown that insurance contributes to a reduction of … insurance. Analyzing deviations from trend in aggregate insurance payments, one finds the following for the United States and …
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I examine the effects of contemporaneous credit rating and watchlist announcements on the over-the-counter U.S. corporate bond market. I find significant negative daily abnormal returns (-2.91%) over a ten-day window associated with a downgrade announcement with negative watch. The effect is...
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The present economic and financial crisis has underlined the importance to financial institutions and investors of having access to efficient methods of quantifying credit risk, or the probability of default. The logit models are among the techniques commonly used by large organizations and...
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order to ensure and improve its solvency. The first aim of this paper is to construct and test an Economic Scenario … maximization of the reserve under the criterion of maximization of solvency ratio (since the fund is in deficit).To do this, we …
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study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …
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We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice …
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.3%-0.4%. Mandatory insurance regimes in Europe absorb the negative short-run effect of a flood, while the National Flood Insurance … ; insurance ; dynamic panel GMM …
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We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …
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transactions of non-agency RMBS by insurance companies from 2006 to 2009, we show that insurance companies that became more capital … at much lower prices than other insurance companies during the crisis …
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