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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822787003321

Autore

Erbas S

Titolo

Institutional Quality, Knightian Uncertainty, and Insurability : : A Cross-Country Analysis / / S. Erbas, Chera Sayers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-8108-1

1-4527-2996-4

1-282-63669-3

9786613822871

1-4519-8808-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (15 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SayersChera

Soggetti

Risk (Insurance)

Risk management - Econometric models

Insurance

Macroeconomics

Industries: Financial Services

Intelligence (AI) & Semantics

Insurance Companies

Actuarial Studies

Formal and Informal Sectors

Shadow Economy

Institutional Arrangements

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Technological Change: Choices and Consequences

Diffusion Processes

Insurance & actuarial studies

Finance

Artificial intelligence

Personal income

Insurance companies

Income



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2006."

At head of title: Office of Executive Directors.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND KNIGHTISAN UNCERTAINTY: AN INTERPRETATION""; ""III. METHODOLOGY""; ""IV. REGRESSION RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Knightian uncertainty (ambiguity) implies presence of uninsurable risks. Institutional quality may be a good indicator of Knightian uncertainty. This paper correlates non-life insurance penetration in 70 countries with income level, financial sector depth, country risk, a measure of cost of insurance, and the World Bank governance indexes. We find that institutional quality-transparency-uncertainty nexus is the dominant determinant of insurability across countries, surpassing the explanatory power of income level. Institutional quality, as it reflects on the level of uncertainty, is the deeper determinant of insurability. Insurability is lower when governance is weaker.