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granular data on the bond transactions of U.S. insurance companies. Liquidity inflows from insurance premiums combined with …
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granular data on the bond transactions of U.S. insurance companies. Liquidity inflows from insurance premiums combined with …
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theoretical research in the field: the investment portfolio, risk management, investment and pension funds, insurance policies …
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We investigate whether corporate finance incentives affect the extent of corporate hedging with property insurance …. Using a database that contains detailed insurance information, we show that firms buy property insurance to reduce the … expected costs of distress. Further, we document a scale effect: large firms purchase less insurance per unit of property. This …
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of insurance companies from around the world. We find that better investor protection results in less risk-taking, as do …
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Islamic finance is based on ethical principles in line with Islamic religious law. Despite its low share of the global financial market, Islamic finance has been one of this sector's fastest growing components over the last decades and has gained further momentum in the wake of the financial...
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This paper analyzes the implications of investors' legal protection on aggregate productivity and growth. We have two main results. First, that better investors' legal protection can mitigate agency problems between investors and innovators and therefore expand the range of high-tech projects...
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One of the great ironies of the financial meltdown of 2008 – which was really more of a values meltdown – is that very few U.S. laws were actually broken. This paper investigates the financial crisis from a different legal perspective – that of Jewish law, using six framing principles:...
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This paper begins with an overview of the Indian insurance market in Section II, which highlights the phenomenal growth … experienced recently, in line with the country's improving economic fundamentals. Section III benchmarks the Indian insurance … market against other regional counterparts. By comparing growth, penetration, density and other insurance variables, it can …
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insurance companies in Mexico are in foreign hands. Many companies enter the markets for financial services in stages. This … process can be modeled using multistage real options. Using Mexican insurance market data and simulation models, we show how …
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