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Human Development And Perceived Corruption As Key Factors Of Life Insurance

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  • Gabriela-Mihaela Muresan

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  • Gabriel Armean

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A commonly recognized proxy, life insurance penetration was used as a dependent variable in our analysis for the 28 EU countries during the period 2004 – 2014. We apply a panel data analysis to assess the influence of human development, corruption level, inflation, population growth, and employment rate to life insurance penetration. Our contributions resides in a new effort to understand the life insurance penetration in terms of behavioural finance. Moreover, our results shows that Human Development generates increases of the life insurance market.

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  • Gabriela-Mihaela Muresan & Gabriel Armean, 2017. "Human Development And Perceived Corruption As Key Factors Of Life Insurance," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 443-451, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2017:i:1:p:443-451
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    Keywords

    behavioral finance; life insurance; human development; panel data;
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    JEL classification:

    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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