 Pietro Masci Insurance Market Development and Entrepreneurship in Latin America and Brazil PhD Doctoral Dissertation - School of Public Policy, George Mason University - Faifax VA - 2013
di Pietro Masci PhD Doctoral Dissertation
School of Public Policy
George Mason University
Fairfax VA
Pietro Masci: Dissertation on
"Insurance Market Development and Entrepreneurship in Latin America and Brazil"
This thesis describes the relationships between insurance, economic activity and entrepreneurship; it develops a theoretical framework and a testable hypothesis to verify the impact of insurance coverage on entrepreneurship as well as the impact of “social insurance” (e.g., health and unemployment insurance provided by government programs) on entrepreneurship.
The relationship between insurance and entrepreneurship is tested with panel data from Brazil.
The findings indicate that policy makers should pursue the development of insurance markets to strengthen entrepreneurship and spur economic growth.
The study opens up a number of opportunities for future work and research.
Outline
1. Definitions: Entrepreneurship and Insurance
2. Framework: Insurance in the process of economic growth. The link between Insurance and Entrepreneurship
3. Historical review: Entrepreneurship and Uncertainty
4. Literature review: Entrepreneurship, Risk and Uncertainty
5. Insurance as a market institution
6. Advanced and Emerging market countries: wealth; institutions; insurance markets
7. USA vs. Brazil
8. Natural and human events and the financial crisis of 2007-8
9. Research Questions
10. Analysis
11. Results
12. Conclusions: relevance of insurance: policy implications and future work
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(07/22/2013)
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