Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of current subsidized crop insurance products (SCIPs … with more risk should be more likely to buy crop insurance in pursuit of the benefits from SCIPs. Findings – However, both … insurance are discussed toward the end of the paper. Originality/value – This paper weaves together literature on traditional …

to investigate the willingness of Shaanxi and Gansu farmers to purchase weather insurance. Design … specifically to extract willingness to pay for weather insurance. Factor affecting willingness to pay are explained using linear … regression. Findings – The authors find strong evidence that the demand for drought insurance is downward sloping and also …

information insurance markets. In monopolistic insurance markets, in constrast, we find that overconfidence may be observationally … (i) price heterogeneity within and across risk classes, (ii) the relationship between ex-post risk and insurance coverage …

market based insurance mechanisms. We find some empirical support for this conjecture in that the volatility of consumption …

The European Union is completely redesigning the system of prudential supervision of insurance institutions as part of … political scope of the theory of auditability formulated by Power. Indeed the insurance institutions that co-defined the … substantial. Insurance is actually running the risk of complete finaciarisation, to the detriment of its specific mission to …

official audited data available at 01.06.2012 at the Insurance Supervisory Commission - the years 2001-2010. The financial … insurance companies, considering that Solvency II will come in force starting with 01.01.2013. …

The text is a description of the evolution of the insurance theory during the period 1968-93. …