Abstract We identify major drivers of the demand for credit insurance, using a worldwide survey among banking executives in structured commodity trade finance business. Our results show that bank’s propensity to purchase insurance increases its experience and expertise with product, impact coverage on balance sheet, risk underlying transaction, as well intensity broker relationships. Other fact...

We consider the numerical solution of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with relaxation using a shock capturing nite diierence scheme on a xed, uniform spatial grid. We conjecture that certain a priori criteria insure that the numerical method does not produce spurious solutions as the relaxation time vanishes. One criterion is that the limits of vanishing relaxation time and vanishing vi...

The internet is considered as the most extensive market in the world. To keep its gradual reputation, it must confront real problems that result from its distribution and from the diversity of the protocols used to insure communications. The Web service technology has diminished significantly the effects of distribution and heterogeneity, but there are several problems that weaken their perform...

The Irish health care system offers a tax financed, universal entitlement to public care at a nominal user fee, nonetheless 50% of the Irish population purchase private health insurance. This paper empirically models the propensity to insure as a function of individual and household characteristics using panel data analysis and compares three alternate approaches; a static, chamberlain-mundlak ...