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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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banking and insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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case of systemically important insurance (G-SIIs) identification methodology was prepared and announced recently. The … objective is to prove that the proposal for the insurance sector better captures the essence of the problem G-SIFIs than the … proposal prepared and implemented for the banking sector (G-SIBs), while at the same time indicate that the insurance sector …
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efficiency changes of 399 listed insurance firms in 52 countries during the 2002-2008 period, the paper reports a positive and …
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This paper provides the first cross-country study on the impact of regulations on the soundness of insurance firms …, using data on over 1,700 insurance firms operating in 46 countries. We find that the power of the supervisory authorities …
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The development of international norms for insurance has not progressed as far or as deeply as the development of … new. The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (“IAIS”) has existed for less than fifteen years while the … only thirteen members from only developed nations.Finally, the fact that insurance is regulated by the states within the …
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