LTC sector has to prepare for future demographic shocks. Substantial fiscal pressure after 2020. Urgent need to mobilize financing for future LTC spending now...

Unfavourable change in the proportion between professionally active and non-active part of the society; Increased share of senior citizens with higher probability of chronic diseases...

Age wave is coming into the CR very soon. It will lead (along with other things) to huge change in health - social services structure. This challenge will require radical rechaping of public funding of health and social services. HalthRefom.cz proposed substancial messure: public sponsored...

At the General Assembly of the Geneva Association held 28-31 May 2008 in Hamilton, Bermuda, the CEOs of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies decided to launch a new research project on climate change and its economic impact on insurance (CC+I). This initiative reflects one of...

Insurers and banks are both suppliers of financial services and constitute together thebulk of the financial services industry. As such, they share certain common traits and,consequently, are often analyzed together. At the same time, they differ markedly in certainrespects, insurance and...

Leader's Statement of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit, What's Systemic Risk, Framework for Mitigating Systemic Risk, Japanese Safety-net for Deposit-taking Financial Institutions...

Financial crisis an insurance, Ten consequences for Risk Management and Supervision, Conclusion regarding an IGF...

Three propositions: Insurance Companies can be systemic importance; Insurance companies should be subject to tougher regulation and supervision; Risks should be assessed on a group-wise basis...

Strict liabilities prevails at major accidents. According to the Polluter Pays Principle,l it is the liable party who pays for any damage. The accidents may be very large, however, compared to the assets of the liable plant owner. The liable party may, therefore, simply go bankrupt and leave the...

Extreme weather patterns are causing major damage on property and business and the question of who pays is becoming a serious issue. A law and economics point of view focuses on the problem that emitters of greenhouse gases externalize the true costs of their contribution to climate change...