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In 2018, the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) was fully implemented by all EU member states. It intends to … harmonize the insurance market, provide the right incentives for the agents and protect the consumers. But why? The core … the latest changes in the insurance business require these limitations and monitoring. This paper offers a literature …
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Our paper analyses the effect of natural catastrophes on insurance demand in a developing economy and the specific role … of insurance regulation in this relationship. We base our analysis on a theoretical model as well as a panel regression … insurance regulation in recent years. The theoretical results indicate that a loss experience should have a less positive effect …
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I revisit the question of which motive underlies insurance demand. I draw on the literature of state-dependent utility … and on the literature of imperfectly divisible consumption to argue that the general purpose of insurance is not a risk … transfer, but meeting a conditional need. In this way, insurance aligns the risk in one's ftnancial endowment with the risk in …
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demand for services like "insurance". As economic factors, we analyze the impact of non-governmental credit over the … insurance market. Development of an econometric model is based not only on the actual loan methodology (involving the securities …, life insurance for applicants and guarantors), but also on direct connections from the range of credit risk insurance …
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Using fund-, firm- and bank-level data we investigate the investments of private equity (PE) funds in the north-western regions of Italy. Both the private equity fund managers and the PE investments are heavily concentrated in this most developed area of the country. The average size of the...
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Private equity companies have become a major force in the economic landscape. Financial- and operational-engineering are innovative characteristics of this emerging method of finance. The existing empirical data provide strong evidence that private equity activity contribute positively to the...
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This paper analyses the role that institutional factors play in explaining differences in the capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across regions belonging to a single country. Specifically, it studies the effect of the development of the financial sector and of the...
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