The paper focuses on the traditional and alternative mechanisms for insurance risk transfer that are available to … global as well as to domestic insurance companies. The findings suggest that traditional insurance risk transfer solutions … available to insurance industry nowadays will be predominant in the foreseeable future but the increasing role of alternative …

This article focuses on the insurance markets transition process in ten South-Eastern Europe (SEE) post …-communist countries. These insurance markets, characterized by a large number of small insurance companies, have been analyzed from … between insurance market development and the European Union (EU) integration process as well as the overall economic …

This paper examines consumer protection regulation in insurance markets and discusses how regulation could be made more …

This paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the decision to provide or buy insurance against the risk of … natural catastrophes. In contrast to conventional models of insurance, the insurer has a non-zero probability of insolvency …. Our model shows that government-provided insurance will be more attractive in terms of expected utility, as it allows …

We consider the joint effect of competition and deposit insurance on risk taking by banks when the riskiness of banks … the bank is a monopoly or banks compete only in the loan market, deposit insurance has no effect on risk taking. In that … case the banks are too risky but extreme risk taking is avoided. In contrast, introducing deposit insurance increases risk …

European legislation for the prudential regulation of insurance and reinsurance sector has existed since the 1970s … represents a crucial modernization of European insurance regulation. Each of these regimes prescribes its own rules for the …

In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … our model. Banks increased lending to the agricultural sector in counties with higher insurance coverage after 1980, even …

This research paper is focused on an important topic in the economic literature, more precisely how the insurance … the insurance sector on economic growth for three countries: France, United Kingdom and Italy, with data collected for the … indicate the variation in the effects of insurance instruments due to the peculiarity of each economy and the way in which each …

This research paper is focused on an important topic in the economic literature, more precisely how the insurance … the insurance sector on economic growth for three countries: France, United Kingdom and Italy, with data collected for the … indicate the variation in the effects of insurance instruments due to the peculiarity of each economy and the way in which each …

This article covers the main developments in the insurance market in the world. Insurance and reinsurance operations … are carried out in a regulated framework that brings together supply and demand of insurance, insurance market framework … known. The insurance market takes place vast majority of specific contracts. Almost all activities of social life and the …