Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … between national income per capita and life expectancy. Other studies (e.g., those reviewed in Cochrane et al., 1980) have … inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …

increased risk as perceived by utilities, banks and lessors and the unpredictability of those risks as perceived by insurance … or income benefits contemplated, or a credit agreement with a bank or other source of funds wherein the utility company … higher rate of return obtaining insurance; or some combination of DOE loan guarantee, lease and insurance. No attempt has …

shocks at country and regional level. I compute insurance capacity using the Spanish Continuous Family Expenditure Survey …. I obtain that durable purchases are a source of insurance with respect to transitory shocks and the effect of family … skipping the imputation methods used by the previous literature to mitigate the signifi cant lack of income and consumption …

that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …

The family business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family … family businesses, specifically how various roles allow them to progressively learn skills and competencies.In an earlier … book (Moores and Barrett, 2002) we found that successful family firm CEOs encountered a series of unique paradoxes …

The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business …

be applied in the family business context. In this article we add familiness to the four BSC perspectives (financial … succession planning in family-owned businesses. We use an action research project to highlight how family businesses can … professionalize their management by the adoption of a BSC strategy map that includes a family business focus and links the core …

Abstract Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and the resource-based-view (RBV) of the … firm, we investigate how the promotion of family-based brand identity influences competitive orientation (customer versus … product) and firm performance in family businesses. Applying structural equation modeling to survey data collected from …

Family-owned businesses represent the majority of business in the United States. As consumers and employees, we are … success of family-owned businesses, but only one third of these organizations successfully transition to the second generation … challenges, these practices fail to account for the various types of family-owned businesses. More specifically, many types of …