Risk management and the global banking crisis: Lessons for insurance solvency regulation

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-347

  Ashby, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

financial crisis; insurance regulation; risk management; solvency regimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960491337     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2011.10     Document Type: Article

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