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The Demand for life insurance in OECD countries

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24514‎$a‎The Demand for life insurance in OECD countries‎$c‎Donghui Li... [et al.]
5208 ‎$a‎This article examines the determinants of life insurance consumption in OECD countries. Consistent with previous results, we find a significant positive income elasticity of life insurance demand. Demand also increases with the number of dependents and level of education, and decreases with life expectancy and social security expenditure. The countrys level of financial development and its insurance markets degree of competition appear to stimulate life insurance sales, whereas high inflation and real interest rates tend to decrease consumption. Overall, life insurance demand is better explained when the product market and socioeconomic factors are jointly considered. In addition, the use of GMM estimates helps reconcile our findings with previous puzzling results based on inconsistent OLS estimates given heteroscedasticity problems in the data.
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080581596‎$a‎Países de la OCDE
650 1‎$0‎MAPA20080570590‎$a‎Seguro de vida
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080584580‎$a‎Demanda de seguros
650 1‎$0‎MAPA20080586294‎$a‎Mercado de seguros
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080562342‎$a‎Estadísticas
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080567613‎$a‎Unión Europea
7001 ‎$0‎MAPA20080028664‎$a‎Li, Donghui
7404 ‎$a‎The Journal of risk and insurance
7730 ‎$w‎MAP20077000727‎$t‎The Journal of risk and insurance‎$d‎Orlando‎$g‎Volume 74, number 3, 2007 ; p. 637-652