Risk Insurance in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Rural Romania
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Risk ; Insurance ; Consumption smoothing ; Transition economies.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O5 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies
- P2 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies
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