For more than 40 years, in France, compensation for damage caused to crops by climatic hazards is essentially a public policy, only losses due to hail which are the subject of widespread insurance. The existence of this public compensation system and the technical obstacles for the introduction...

Life expectancy at birth in Algeria keeps improving significantly at least since the independence in 1962. This longevity combined with the new constraints of the Algerian life annuity market reduces the usefulness of static life tables and accentuates the need to use prospective life tables as...

Mortality data for Algerian retirees are not available for long periods allowing a direct application of prospective mortality models. The positioning of the experience mortality on an external reference is one of the technical solutions to circumvent data problem. Nevertheless, this procedure...

English Since its introduction in 2011, crop insurance in the Sahel (CSI), which appeared as a practical innovation in West Africa, has been struggling to spread in Burkina Faso. As an index-based insurance scheme, it is expected to secure financing for agriculture and preserve farmers' incomes...

Since 1 June 2003 the file of the Central Office for Credits to Private Individuals has recorded information relating to all consumer credits and mortgage loans contracted by natural persons for private purposes, as well as any payment defaults resulting from these loans. This registration aims...

Already evoked in the years 1970 by American economists such as Sargen, the concept of country risk returned to the front of the economic scene following the financial crises of the years 1990.The concept of country risk is not new insofar as it is inherent in the swaps between two economic...

Les Départements d’Outre Mer (DOM) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la métropole. Pourtant, les ménages des DOM sont moins nombreux à être assurés contre les catastrophes naturelles. En France, l’assurance habitation inclut obligatoirement la garantie contre les catastrophes...

Since 1 June 2003 the file of the Central Office for Credits to Private Individuals has recorded information relating to all consumer credits and mortgage loans contracted by natural persons for private purposes, as well as any payment defaults resulting from these loans. This registration aims...

Le texte décrit l'évolution de la théorie de l'assurance dans la période 1968-93.

Notre communication se propose d’expliciter les comportements de détention de produits d’assurance vie selon l’âge, à partir d’une exploitation économétrique de l’enquête Patrimoine 1998 de l’Insee. Plus précisément, nous cherchons à identifier les déterminants...