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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA : a dynamic panel approach
Raschky, Paul A. - 2007
European region reduces the regional GDP by 0.4%-0.6%; an average flood event in the U.S.A reduces the personal income by 0 ….3%-0.4%. Mandatory insurance regimes in Europe absorb the negative short-run effect of a flood, while the National Flood Insurance … Program (NFIP) in the U.S.A. mitigate the effects of a flood by about 50%. The results provide empirical foundation for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731161
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Risk attitudes, development, and growth : macroeconomic evidence from experiments in 30 countries
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Chmura, Thorsten; Martinsson, Peter - 2012
We measure risk attitudes in 30 different countries in a controlled, incentivized experiment (N = 3025). At the macroeconomic level, we find a strong and highly significant negative correlation between the risk tolerance of a country and income per capita. This gives rise to a paradox, seen that...
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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA : a dynamic panel approach
Raschky, Paul - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003465138
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Does the insurance sector really matter for economic growth? : evidence from Central and Eastern European countries
Bayar, Yılmaz; Dan Gavriletea, Marius; Danuletiu, Dan … - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 3, pp. 695-713
This paper analyses the impact of insurance sector development on economic growth based on a sample that includes 14 … employed and led to the following conclusions: (1) life insurance has no significant effect on economic growth in both panel … and individual countries, (2) non-life insurance positively affects economic growth in both panel and individual countries …
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Estimating the effects of risk transfer mechanisms against floods in Europe and USA: A dynamic panel approach
Raschky, Paul A. - 2007
European region reduces the regional GDP by 0.4%-0.6%; an average flood event in the U.S.A reduces the personal income by 0 ….3%-0.4%. Mandatory insurance regimes in Europe absorb the negative short-run effect of a flood, while the National Flood Insurance … Program (NFIP) in the U.S.A. mitigate the effects of a flood by about 50%. The results provide empirical foundation for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293431
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The dynamics of consumer behavior and the transition to sustainable consumption patterns
Witt, Ulrich - 2011
Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935663
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Continuous market growth beyond functional satiation : time-series analyses of US footwear consumption, 1955-2002
Frenzel Baudisch, Alexander (contributor) - 2006
Market growth is driven by product innovation. Beyond functional satiation the marginal utility of product performance and variety decreases. We argue that social comparisons underlying innovation diffusion results in consumer motivations for upward assimilation toward the behavior of better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375567
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The dynamics of consumer behavior and the transition to sustainable consumption patterns
Witt, Ulrich - 2011
Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286761
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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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Revisit asymmetric causal link between insurance activity and output in the United States
Chang, Tsangyao; Peng, Yi-Ting - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 16 (2017) 7, pp. 719-726
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