This Geneva Association “insurance reader on the credit crisis” has been put togetheras a reaction to the widespread demand for reliable information on and an intellectualappreciation of the insurance sector’s involvement in the credit crisis. Since the end of2007, The Geneva Association...

This paper focuses on the 1995 Latin American and 1997 East Asian crises using an insurance-based model of financial crises. First the model of Dooley (forthcoming) is described. Second, some empirical evidence for an insurance model is presented. The key variables in this approach include the...

This paper focuses on the 1995 Latin American and 1997 East Asian crises using an insurance-based model of financial crises. First the model of Dooley (forthcoming) is described. Second, some empirical evidence for an insurance model is presented. The key variables in this approach include the...

The volume includes theoretical articles on banks' liability restrictions, on the possible causes of the banking crisis and economic-policy recommendations on banking regulation by Hans-Werner Sinn in the past three decades.