This paper examines the ways insurance companies modified their investment policies during the interwar years, arguing …

This paper investigates the impact of insurance on stock market development in 37 developing countries over the period … 1987-2011. By controlling for the potential endogeneity bias, we show that the insurance premiums significantly increase … promotes the deepening of financial market. Thus, the results argue for insurance policies promoting and an improvement of the …

the random lifetime, must be done prior to the checkup. We show that in the absence of life insurance market a better …

The insurance industry plays an important role for European economic stability and the threats and opportunities it …

risk, an important advantage of cat bonds can be seen in presumably lower risk premiums compared to (re)insurance products … analyze cat bonds and reinsurance as substitutional risk management tools in a standard insurance demand theory environment …

The insurance industry plays an important role for European economic stability and the threats and opportunities it …

transaction costs compared to (re)insurance products. Insurance coverage usually incurs costs of acquisition, monitoring and loss … tools in a standard insurance demand theory environment. We concentrate on the problem of basis risk versus transaction cost …

This study analyses the long- and short-term dynamics of the determinants of insurance penetration for the period 1999Q … gathered. A cointegrating and short-run momentous connection was discovered between insurance penetration along with the ….4%. This further affirms that education, productivity, dependency, inflation and income determine insurance penetration in West …

while the return of individual insurance companies in Nigeria is more volatile than the market return; The return of … individual insurance firms in Nigeria is more volatile than the return of individual banks in Nigeria. The security variance for … a bank is greater than the security variance for an insurance firm. Thus the total risk of a bank is greater than the …