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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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The role of non-bank financial intermediaries (with particular reference to Egypt) [PDF]
Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) comprise a mixed bag of institutions, ranging from leasing, factoring, and venture capital companies to various types of contractual savings and institutional investors (pension funds, insurance companies, and ...
Vittas, Dimitri
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Efficient frontier approach to determine performance of individual pension fund companies: Evidence from Turkey [PDF]
, 2017 In Turkey, there are two types of pension fund systems. One of them is general social security system which the fund is managed by formal government institutions.
Aygören, Hakan +2 more
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Social Credit: promising direction of further reforming of the Russian pension system
Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020 Russian pension system faced serious challenges. It’s distributive and insurance components can’t rich aims of pension system in the long-term because of high degree of dependence on demographic situation; it’s accumulative component - because of not ...
P. P. Goncharov
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Tunisia's insurance sector [PDF]
The main economic functions of the insurance sector are to cover financial risk and to mobilize long-term savings. The sector can also play an important role in developing the private sector and modernizing the securities market. But to play its economic
Vittas, Dimitri
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Consumption Smoothing and Vulnerability in Russia [PDF]
, 2007 Applying bootstrapped quantile regression to the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) data, we examine the channels through which individuals experience and seek to cope with changes in consumption.
Gerry, Christopher, Li, Carmen A.
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Economic Record, EarlyView.We examine the impact of two changes to Australia's Parenting Payment Single (PPS) program, a welfare payment for low‐income single mothers. One change lowered the age of the youngest child cut off for program eligibility, forcing new welfare entrants onto the less generous Newstart (unemployment) payment.
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
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BANK MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN ROMANIA AFTER 1989 [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2014 In this paper I proposed to myself to analyse the main bank acquisitions and mergers from Romania after 1989, causes that led to their appearance, their effects on the bank system and their future perspectives on the Romanian bank market.
Copil Crina Angela, , ,
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Developments in the Structure of the Australian Financial System [PDF]
Some countries’ financial systems have undergone significant changes in response to the global financial crisis. While Australia’s financial system also experienced a variety of pressures and changes as a result of the crisis, the overall effect was much
Adam Gorajek, Bernadette Donovan
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