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Potential Role of Insurance Sector in Mitigating Climate Risk
Kumar, Sonjai - 2023
The insurance industry could potentially play a greater constructive role in mitigating climate risk by aligning with …
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Impact of Climate Risk on the Insurance Industry
Kumar, Sonjai - 2023
Climate risk impacts the insurance industry on both sides of the balance sheets. On the one hand, rising weather …
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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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Uncertainty and insurance in endogenous climate change
Müller-Fürstenberger, Georg; Schumacher, Ingmar - 2009
We investigate the economic impact of stochastic endogenous extreme events and insurance in a growth model. Our … analytical results and computational experiments show that i) transparency of the insurance sector is the decisive requisite for … insurance fairly is preferable to an insurance industry which provides insurance with an overhead. …
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Consumption Smoothing Across States and Time : International Insurance vs. Foreign Loans
von Furstenberg, George M. - 2016
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Economic growth and insurance development : the role of institutional environments
Lee, Chien-chiang; Chang, Chi-Hung; Arouri, Mohamed; … - In: Economic modelling 59 (2016), pp. 361-369
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Problemy rozwoju rynku finansowego w aspekcie wzrostu gospodarczego
Karpuś, Piotr (contributor) - 2007
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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 3 (2017) 11, pp. 1-30
Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate how an increase in information-sharing bureaus affects financial access. Methods: We employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive quantile regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004–2011. Information-sharing bureaus...
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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate how increasing information sharing bureaus affect financial access. For this reason, we have employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive Quantile Regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing bureaus are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668525
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Statistical modelling of temperature risk
Anastasiadou, Zografia; López Cabrera, Brenda - 2012
Recently the topic of global warming has become very popular. The literature has concentrated its attention on the evidence of such effect, either by detecting regime shifts or change points in time series. The majority of these methods are designed to find shifts in mean, but only few can do...
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