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Using a two-account model with event risk, we model life insurance contracts taking into account both guaranteed and …
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Guarantees are often seen as the key characteristics of pension saving products, but securing them can become costly … deal with the question of how costly the typical types of guarantees are, in the sense that they reduce a pension saving … literature studying the impact of point-to-point guarantees and cliquet-style interest rate guarantees on the performance of …
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authors identified the guarantees used in each of the signed contracts, through a documentary survey. Next, semi … guarantees required by financial institutions stands out. Focused on this problem, in 2013, the Regional Bank for the Development … of the Extreme South (BRDE) created a policy to stimulate innovation, making the required guarantees for financing …
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This paper analyses the determinants of firm participation in the Swiss COVID-19 loan programme, which aims to bridge firms' liquidity shortfalls that have resulted from the pandemic. State-guaranteed COVID-19 loans are widely used by Swiss firms, with 20% of all firms participating, resulting...
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A mechanism guarantees a certain welfare level to its agents, if each of them can secure that level against unanimously … familiar random dictator and voting by veto mechanisms yields a large family of maximal guarantees: it is exhaustive if n=2 and …
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We consider a matching model in which individuals belonging to two populations (\textquotedblleft males\textquotedblright\ and \textquotedblleft females\textquotedblright ) can match to share their exogenous income risk. Within each population, individuals can be ranked by risk aversion in the...
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A Capital Markets Union (CMU) is the great hope of European policymakers. The plan for a CMU tries to reduce the reliance of European investors on banks and build up a market-based risk-sharing channel between member states. Our empirical analysis raises doubts that this can be achieved through...
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I show that risk-sharing pension plans can reduce some of the shortcomings of defined benefit and defined contributions plans. The risk-sharing pension plan presented aims to improve the stability of benefits paid to generations of members, while allowing them to enjoy the expected advantages of...
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The European banking union has so far lacked its third pillar: a joint insurance fund for bank savings deposits. As the present study shows, this could be a major disadvantage in dealing with the economic impact of the corona pandemic. A scenario in which a wave of corporate insolvencies leads...
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Der europäischen Bankenunion fehlt bisher die dritte Säule: ein gemeinsamer Sicherungsfonds für die Einlagen von SparerInnen bei Banken. Wie diese Studie zeigt, könnte dies im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie Nachteile mit sich bringen. Ein Szenario, in dem es durch...
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