Does Insurance Help to Escape the Poverty Trap?-A Ruin Theoretic Approach

Journal of Risk and Insurance

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1003-1028

  Kovacevic, Raimund M ^a   Pflug, Georg Ch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

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EID: 82155162123     PISSN: 00224367     EISSN: 15396975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2010.01396.x     Document Type: Article

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