This paper lays out some of the basic concepts surrounding financial inclusion, including access to banking, digital … payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm …

Objective: The objective of the article is to empirically examine the predictors of ROA and ROE for banks and insurance … significant and negative for ROE. Banks earned lower return on their assets and higher return on their equity than insurance … findings of internal predictors of ROA and ROE in banking. It is one of the first studies to examine predictors of ROA and ROE …

beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical … contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review begins with the role of utility, risk, and risk aversion in the … insurance literature and summarizes work on the demand for insurance, insurance and resource allocation, moral hazard, and …

This article examines the regulatory challenges raised by recent, overlooked changes in insurance markets that have led … to a functional convergence between insurance and the broader financial sector.The law literature on financial regulation … context of insurance, and does so by applying an analytical framework that distinguishes between two “boundary problems” that …

study aims to empirically investigate the input efficiency of banking and insurance sectors with further probe into Islamic … segments of these sectors in Pakistan. This study measures the technical, allocative, cost, and scale efficiencies of banking … and insurance firms in our sample using the non-parametric frontier method, data envelopment analysis (DEA). The findings …

some elements of instability associated with laissez faire but underdeveloped banking; (b) the 1970s and 1980s that …. Considerable competition has been introduced in the banking sector through new private sector banks, but public sector banks … still in their infancy. Similarly, despite the introduction of new private sector insurance companies coverage of insurance …