ex-ante preparedness is needed to manage the risks. The paper discusses sovereign experience with disaster insurance as a … key instrument to mitigate the risks; proposes ways to judge the adequacy of insurance; and considers ways to enhance its … use by vulnerable countries. The paper especially aims to inform policy decisions on disaster insurance. Through …

In this paper, we examine how the presence of country insurance schemes affects policymakers'' incentives to undertake … reform in crisis-prone volatile economies. The consequences of country insurance, however, hinge on the nature of the reforms … ultimately discouraged by, insurance. By contrast, ""enhancing"" reforms that pay off more generously in the absence of a crisis …

invest prudently and so reduce bank risk taking. This systemic insurance effect will be relatively more important when …

of Knightian uncertainty. This paper correlates non-life insurance penetration in 70 countries with income level …, financial sector depth, country risk, a measure of cost of insurance, and the World Bank governance indexes. We find that …

quantify the amount of fiscal risk generated by various factors, and thus provide inputs for the design of potential insurance …

work. Recently, more emphasis has also been placed on the role of insurance for financial stability analysis. This paper … reviews the current state of system-wide solvency stress tests for insurance based on a comparative review of national … consistent implementation of such exercises. The paper also offers recommendations on improving the current insurance stress …

Insurance enterprises provide services, called insurance services, to policyholders. The values of such services are … discusses the treatment of insurance services, and related transactions, in the balance of payments. A simple measure, based on … a number of assumptions, of nonlife insurance services is considered. The assumptions underlying this measure are then …