This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

that hardly explains the many features of an insurance contract. We extend this setup to include the situation that the … show how the law of insurance contracts should allow insurers to incentivize policyholders to exert an adequate level of …

Should we exempt the services of insurance companies from VAT? Addressing this issue, the paper distinguishes between … insurance against a general loss of resources and a loss of a specific commodity (property insurance). There is a case for … exempting the former kind of insurance, but not the latter. Finally, comparing insurance through a producer warranty with …

We analyze how pandemic business interruption coverage can be put in place by building on capitalization mechanisms … markets. We show that such financial investment allow insurers to offer business interruption coverage in pandemic states …

, and climate change is predicted to intensify this problem. The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) scheme piloted in …

prevents Turkey from eliminating the decisive political role of the military, giving Kurds and other minorities cultural rights … and upholding basic human rights. …