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Chapter 71. Access to Finance
Karlan, Dean; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4703-4784). 2010
Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach. We...
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Insurance activities and systemic risk
Berdin, Elia; Sottocornola, Matteo - 2015 - This version: December 2015
This paper investigates systemic risk in the insurance industry. We first analyze the systemic contribution of the … insurance industry vis-à-vis other industries by applying 3 measures, namely the linear Granger causality test, conditional … Europe over the last 14 years. We then analyze the determinants of the systemic risk contribution within the insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434812
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Asset-liability management with ultra-low interest rates
Grossman, Richard S.; Molyneux, Philip; Lambert, Frederic; … - Conference on Asset-Liability Management with Ultra-Low …; … - 2015
On 11 March 2015, SUERF jointly organised a conference with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Austrian Society for Bank Research (Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft - BWG). The present SUERF Study 2015/2 includes a selection of papers based on the authors' contributions to the Vienna...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413495
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Insurers as asset managers and systemic risk
Ellul, Andrew; Jotikasthira, Chotibhak; Kartasheva, … - 2018
risk. Using the U.S. life insurance industry as a laboratory, we present a model in which variable annuity (VA) guarantees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978571
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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
London are grouped into Syndicates in order to undertake insurance liabilities. In this study, the Syndicate is regarded as … the counterpart of an insurance company in a regular insurance market. The analysis covers a period of eight years between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300255
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Brexit and the implications for financial services : edited by Patricia Jackson, introduced by Morten Balling, Ernest Gnan and Patricia Jackson; contributions by Franklin Allen, Jo...
Jackson, Patricia; Balling, Morten; Gnan, Ernest; … - Conference on "Brexit and the Implications for …; … - 2017
On 23rd February 2017, SUERF and EY organized a conference on "Brexit and the Implications for Financial Services" at EY's offices, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London. While the outcome of the Brexit negotiations remains highly uncertain, the conference discussed the burning questions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712197
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Insurance activities and systemic risk
Berdin, Elia; Sottocornolay, Matteo - 2015 - This version: December 2015
This paper investigates systemic risk in the insurance industry. We first analyze the systemic contribution of the … insurance industry vis-a-vis other industries by applying 3 measures, namely the linear Granger causality test, conditional … Europe over the last 14 years. We then analyze the determinants of the systemic risk contribution within the insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406423
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Forecasting the fragility of the banking and insurance sector
Bernoth, Kerstin; Pick, Andreas - 2009
banking and insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832732
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Reinsurance and Sustainability : Evidence From International Insurers
Bressan, Silvia - 2023
Reinsurance is an integral transaction to the insurance business and carries real economic consequences. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350764
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Societal Trust, Risk Avoidance and Corporate Risk Taking : Evidence from the Global Insurance Industry
Sun, Tao - 2023
The global insurance industry is undergoing fundamental change, with countries that are classified as emerging … taking by insurance firms around the world between 2001 and 2014. We measure societal trust and risk avoidance using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356124