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The Role of Institutional Factors Over the National Insurance Demand: Theoretical Approach and Econometric Estimations

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title The Role of Institutional Factors Over the National Insurance Demand: Theoretical Approach and Econometric Estimations
 
Creator DRAGOȘ, Simona Laura; Lecturer, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business
Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania; Laboratory of Economics Orléans (LEO),
Orléans University, France
DRAGOȘ, Cristian Mihai; Associate Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences
and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Laboratory of Economics Orléans
(LEO), Orléans University, France
 
Subject institutional factors; insurance demand.
 
Description The insurance sector becomes a more and more important component for the national economic and financial development. Nevertheless, the consumption and the density, both for life and non-life insurances, reveal a great variation across countries. Academic literature treats frequently the importance of the economic and demographic factors. This study evaluates the determining institutional factors of the insurance demand using OLS Multiple Regressions models on a sample of 31 European countries. The econometric estimates, according to the theory, show that a country’s level of corruption is decisive for the development of the non-life insurances. For the life insurances, business freedom, fiscal freedom and government spending are the most relevant explanatory variables. The article emphasizes the mechanism through which the significant institutional factors influence the insurance density from a country.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2013-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/123
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2013: Issue No. 39 E/June; 32-45
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/123/119
 
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