insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors into account …

account for risks which are assumed by the deposit insurance fund. Capital adequacy requirements are designed to minimise the … social costs of these effects. We show that banks should always have higher regulatory capital requirements than insurance … companies. Contrary to received wisdom, when banks and insurance companies combine to form financial conglomerates we show that …

hedge funds, banks, brokers, and insurance companies based on principal components analysis and Granger-causality tests. We … the finance and insurance industries. These measures can also identify and quantify financial crisis periods, and seem to …, banks, insurance companies, and brokers …

dynamics of Swiss banks and insurance companies for the past five years. The cross-country comparisons show that despite the … recovery in profitability and capital for banks and insurance companies, challenges and risks remain. In particular, big banks … forward to enhance the insurance sector's resilience while a sustained low interest rate has negatively affected the sector …

The growing need for diversification in Italian banks can easily look to the insurance market, which has interesting … systems, between banks and insurance companies. Also, the “life insurance” products, the one with the highest development … the setting up of joint ventures – this means the possibility of mixing with the sale of products with the insurance …