The 9/11 attacks in the United States, as well as other attacks in different parts of the world, raise important questions related to the economic impact of terrorism. What are the most effective ways for a country to recover from these economic losses? Who should pay for the costs of future...

The principle of uncertain future: the probability of a future event contains a degree of (hidden) uncertainty. As a result, this uncertainty (in a sense, similar to vibrations, fluctuations) pushes the probability value back from the bounds to the middle of its range (from ~100% and ~0% to the...

A model is presented to characterise the (optimal) demand for cash balances in deregulated markets. After the model of James Tobin, 1958, net balances are determined in order to maximise the expected return of a certain portfolio combining risk and capital. Unlike the model of Tobin, however,...

In 1991, Congress passed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). The Act provided for risk-based deposit insurance premiums, put explicit limits on the application of a “too big to fail” principle for banks and required that examiners implement “prompt...

In the context of a bright economy towards we aim the insurances represent are activity branch a services department with a financial character and with many valences. Beyond of the essential role of these is that the protection of the properties and the persons too between the various risks,...

Taking into account the actual economic situation of the world with numerous financial crisis, the insurance companies should control their financial stability in order to avoid the insolvency or even bankruptcy state. Thus, the insurers should find the adequate methods of substantiating the...

Taking into account the actual economic situation of the world with numerous financial crisis, the insurance companies should control their financial stability in order to avoid the insolvency or even bankruptcy state. Thus, the insurers should find the adequate methods of substantiating the...

The sum insured of insured assets is one of the basic significant characteristics of insurance policy quality and is the ceiling amount of insurance benefit in the case of an insured loss. It is one of the parameters specified in the policy and affects the premium amount. The sum insured relates...

International statistics regarding the main index registered on the insurance market and in the structure reveals the activity level of insurance on the profile markets and their absorption capacity. Taking into account these results and international comparisons, in Romania, in 2006, which...

Le travail se propose d’analyser les premises de la démarration de la reforme du système de pensions de retraite en Roumanie et présente l’architecture projetée de celui-ci. La modification du cadre législatif a déterminé des mutations dans la méthodologie de calcul des prestations...