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Mutual Insurance as Problematic Concept in Traditional Risk-Prone Societies : Towards Resolving the Paradox.

Abraham, A.; Platteau, J.P. - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 1994

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Some Comments on Two Approximations Used for the Pricing of Reinstatements.

Walhin, J.F. - Catholique de Louvain - Institut de statistique - 2000

The aim of this paper if to give some comments on two approximations used to price reinstatements related to excess of loss reinsurance. For the pro rate capita clause, we will study the rate on line method. For the pro rate temporis clause, we will study the use of a trivial approximation. The...

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Unemployment Compensation and Episodes of Nonemployment.

Gritz, R.M.; MaCurdy, T. - Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford … - 1990

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A Contractual Approach to the Regulation Corporate Directors' Fiduciary Duties.

Gutierrez, M. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2000

of protective measures for the directors such as indemnification and liability insurance. …

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An Economic Analysis of Corporate Directors' Fiduciary Duties.

Gutierrez, M. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2000

insurance and limited liability provisions that is observed in the US is optimal because it allows shareholders to credible …

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Playing it Safe with Low Conditional Fees versus Being Insured by High Contingent Fees

Emons, Winand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Under contingent fees the attorney gets a share of the judgement; under conditional fees they get an upscale premium if the case is won, which is, however, unrelated to the adjudicated amount. We compare conditional and contingent fees in a framework where lawyers choose between a safe and a...

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Genetic Tests and Intertemporal Screening in Competitive Insurance Markets

Emons, Winand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We consider successive generations of non-altruistic individuals carrying a good or bad gene. Daughters are more likely to carry their mother's gene than the opposite one. Competitive insurers can perform a genetic test revealing an agent's gene. They may condition their quotes on the agent's or...

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Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces

Kong, Calum G. Turvey Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-24

farmers would have a preference for weather insurance over other types of agricultural insurance. Design … insurance with 50 and 44 percent of respondents indicating strong interest in the product. Supplementary results indicate that … in the access to Chinese weather station data to illustrate how weather insurance operates. Instead, the authors use …

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Migration, Risk and Liquidity Constraints in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2005

This paper utilizes panel data from El Salvador to investigate the use of trans-national migration as an ex post risk management strategy. We show that adverse agricultural conditions in El Salvador increase both migration to the US and remittances sent back to El Salvador. We show that, in the...

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Insurance with frequent trading

Penalva, José - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997

allocations by trading in a few natural securities: private insurance contracts and a common set of derivatives on the aggregate …

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