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While there is growing evidence of persistent or even permanent output losses from financial crises, the causes remain unclear. One candidate is intangible capital - a rising driver of economic growth that, being non-pledgeable as collateral, is vulnerable to financial frictions. By sheltering...
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Violent conflicts are typically associated with a long-lasting drag on economic output, yet establishing causality based on macro-data remains as a challenge. This study attempts to build causality in the conflict-growth nexus by exploiting within-country variation across industries'...
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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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The insurance industry plays a substantive vitality in the growth of the economy. However, there is limited literature … on the activities of the insurance industry and economic growth in Ghana. As one of the fastest-growing economies in sub … economy, of which insurance cannot be underscored. Moreover, proxies used to measure insurance for developing economies …
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The objective is to examine the determinants of the relationship between insurance growth and economic development … factors that affect the demand) and the development side (insurance is a determinant of growth) …
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