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Factors influencing foreign direct investment of South African financial services firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Charalambous, Harris - 2011
This research investigates the key elements that South African financial servicesfirms consider before making foreign direct investments (FDI) in Sub-SaharanAfrican (SSA) markets. Specifically it aims to establish the order of importance ofthe key factors influencing FDI as well as understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447772
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Customer preferences of financial services across the US, Germany and Russia.
Schmidt, Martina K.; Bergsiek, Micha; Kolesnikova, Marina - 2009
, technologically related attributes, such as online-banking are unimportant in Russia. Some interest exists in all three countries for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452186
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Forging relationships with services: The antecedents that have an impact on behavioural outcomes in the life insurance industry
Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven; Mehta, Subhash; … - 2004
, perceived value, repurchase intention and willingness to recommend to others. The life insurance industry was chosen as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484485
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Finding the Sweet Spot: A Two Industry Study Using the Zone of Tolerance to Identify Determinant Service Quality Attributes
Durvasula, Srinivas; Lobo, Antonio; Lysonski, Steven; … - 2006
This paper makes a detailed comparison of two major financial services in Singapore: life insurance and stockbrokerage … enjoyed a similar status in the life insurance industry. Results also confirm that while MSA and MSS both drive satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484549
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BANKASSURANCE AS A TOOL FOR PROTECTING POPULATION DURING CRISIS
STEPANEK, Lukas; URBAN, Roman - 2016
The article discusses the concept of comprehensive and integrated cover of clients’ monetary needs and necessities called the bankassurance. It is divided in parts dealing with contracting, importance, problems and place of bankassurance in relation with the financial safety during crisis, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529218
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INSURANCE INDUSTRY IDEAS OF SECOND MILLENNIUM
Stepanek, Lukas; Urban, Roman - 2017
This article discusses the characteristics of the “Insurance Business 2000” project that unites the academic doctrine … used by some banking houses. The article objective is to point out various organisational innovations and project … conclusions that may be applied in real life, mainly at the interface between central operation (insurance company) and external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617938
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Three essays on the relationship between financial regime, trade regime and the industrial sector in Colombia
Valderrama, Maria Teresa - 1996
contains a historical and institutional view of the development of the banking system in Colombia, its relation with the stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477957
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The financial system and economic growth in the United Kingdom: a disaggregated time series approach
Jobome, Gregory Ovie - 2002
sector, whereas banking sector development is found to be important forservice sector output. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461286
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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439051
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432546