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Risk sharing and the demand for insurance: Theory and experimental evidence from Ethiopia [PDF]
Households in developing countries commonly engage in risk sharing to cope with shocks. Despite this, the residual risk they remain exposed to — often due to aggregate events such as droughts and floods — is considerable. To mitigate these risks, governments, NGOs and multilateral organizations have introduced index insurance. To appreciate its welfare
Berg, Erlend +2 more
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This study aims to analyze the effect of profitability, asset structure, and business risk on the capital structure of insurance companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2012- 2016 and to know the pattern of financing pecking order theory ...
Isti Fadah +3 more
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The Effect of Underwriting Diversification on Investment Risk of Insurance Companies [PDF]
This study investigates the effect of diversification in the underwriting activities and insurance portfolio on the level of risk-taking in the investment activities of insurance companies.
Arash Goodarzi, Reza Tehrani, Ali Souri
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Farmer’s adoption of agricultural insurance for Mediterranean crops as an innovative behavior
Agriculture is a risky industry and is present in every management choice the farmer makes. Farms can experiment with different tools that can contain the impact of adverse events to protect production facilities, investments, and income generated by ...
Giuseppe Timpanaro +5 more
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Public-private flood management: Who should pay and when?
We provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of an efficient sharing of public and private flood-risk mitigation. Our analysis examines how individuals in a floodplain can best protect their property, given the interdependence between the public ...
Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant +2 more
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Assessing Systemic Risk in the Insurance Sector Via Network Theory
We provide a framework for detecting relevant insurance companies in a systemic risk perspective. Among the alternative methodologies for measuring systemic risk, we propose a complex network approach where insurers are linked to form a global interconnected system.
Clemente, GP, Cornaro, A
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A mathematical model for deriving the optimal trajectory of life insurance demand [PDF]
This study explores the optimal trajectory of life insurance demand, a crucial financial tool for managing mortality risk and ensuring economic security for family.
Ghadir Mahdavi
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Asymptotically Normal Estimators of the Gerber-Shiu Function in Classical Insurance Risk Model
Nonparametric estimation of the Gerber-Shiu function is a popular topic in insurance risk theory. Zhang and Su (2018) proposed a novel method for estimating the Gerber-Shiu function in classical insurance risk model by Laguerre series expansion based on ...
Wen Su, Wenguang Yu
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BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS IN INSURANCE MARKET [PDF]
The insurance industry has an essential economic importance.In spite of the great progress,we have to emphase that the existing theoretic models cannot entirely explain the mechanism of the insurance market and of its decisional process,especially in ...
Stroe Andreea, , ,
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A Theory of Housing Collateral, Consumption Insurance and Risk Premia [PDF]
In a model with housing collateral, a decrease in house prices reduces the collateral value of housing, increases household exposure to idiosyncratic risk, and increases the conditional market price of risk. This collateral mechanism can quantitatively replicate the conditional and the cross-sectional variation in risk premia on stocks for reasonable ...
Hanno Lustig, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
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