banking and insurance performance, and evaluate the forecasts from our model. We find that taking unobserved common factors …

Based on a sample of 946 German insurance intermediaries, the factors that affect the quality of the information … or certificates) to reduce asymmetric information with respect to the service quality of insurance intermediaries is … concentrate on increasing transparency about intermediaries' (in-)dependence from insurance companies and improve consumers …

Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is …. -- Insurance intermediation ; service quality ; distribution systems …

often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services … "insurance" and a simple ecological-economic model, we derive the economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience and study how … insurance value of resilience is negative (positive) for low (high) levels of resilience, (ii) it increases with the level of …

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy … trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … of breach is negligible. However, as for much B2C insurance marketing, face-to-face selling plays a crucial role in our …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

This paper surveys the formation and development of insurance business in Brazil. It describes its very first steps … they evolved in response to macroeconomic shocks that affected the Brazilian economy during this period. -- Insurance …

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …