Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness /

This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by lif...

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Autor Principal: Das, Udaibir
Outros autores: Davies, Nigel, Podpiera, Richard
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/138
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF