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In last period, the economic environment from Romania favors the apparition of a new category of insurance. In this category can be include “directors and officers liability insurance” – “D&O insurance”. Directors and officers liability insurance protects the persons with attributions...
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We investigate the effectiveness of a government subsidy and mitigation based insurance contracts at discouraging migration into the wildland interface and at inducing incentives for risk mitigation. We construct a model of the individual migration decision, where the individual maximizes...
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This paper aims to highlight the changes in the general insurance market in Romania in the past years. In the context of the financial and economic crisis, the Romanian insurance market recorded different siutations in recent years. It can be noticed that the growth rate slowed down compared...
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Insurance plays an important role in the financial sector but while there is many research on the casual relationship bank lending and economic growth is often ignored relationship insurance and economic growth. Among financial intermediaries, insurance companies play an important role in...
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On 10 January 2013 the ECB Governing Council decided “to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged” based on an assessment of a ‚contained‘ inflationary pressure and a weak economic activity, a contraction of real GDP in second and third quarter of 2012. Similar decisions have been taken...
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In insurance industry, the financial stability of insurance companies represents an issue of vital importance. In order to maintain the financial stability and meet minimum regulatory requirements, actuaries apply actuarial modeling. Modeling has been at the center of actuarial science and of...
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The insurance companies are required to cover gross technical reserves with permitted assets in accordance with the legal regulations in force, namely prudential rules issued by the Insurance Supervisory Commission in accordance with the European directives on the matter, and the coverage of the...
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The Money's Worth Ratio (MWR) measures an annuity's actuarial fairness. It is calculated as the discounted present value of expected future payments divided by its cost. We argue that from the perspective of annuitants, this measure may overestimate the value-for-money obtained, since it does...
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Insurance companies, reinsurance companies and insurance-reinsurance companies authorized in one EU Member States can carry out insurance or reinsurance activity in another member state, under the right of establishment and freedom to provide services. The right of establishment of an insurer...
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that of loans and corporate bonds, and was characterized by a strong preference for mezzanine tranches rated investment … capital charges, insurance companies invest more heavily in bonds and CLO tranches with higher yields. Preferences for CLO … tranches derived from tranches' higher yields relative to bonds with the same rating, and increased following the 2010 capital …
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