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 …

the other hand, it also provides old age insurance. This trade-off is examined using a life-cycle general equilibrium … from insurance against living much longer than expected …

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

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 …

still in their infancy. Similarly, despite the introduction of new private sector insurance companies coverage of insurance … public ownership in banks and insurance companies, expansion of the contractual savings system through more rapid expansion … of the insurance and pension systems, greater spread of mutual funds, and development of institutional investors. It is …

of IFRS 17. The paper is based on the results of a survey of 20 insurance supervisors. Overall, IFRS 17 is a welcome … development but there will be challenges of implementation. Not many insurance supervisors currently intend to use IFRS 17 as a …