{"title":"Direct Payments Versus Subsidized Crop Insurance in Agriculture","authors":"A. Biernat-Jarka, Joanna Pawłowska-Tyszko","doi":"10.30858/ZER/89616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30858/ZER/89616","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents types of subsidized crop insurance in agriculture. The purpose of the study was to discuss changes in the area of insured crops in 2009-2015 and to show the link between the introduction of the crop insurance law and the actual level of insurance contracts concluded by farmers. The study attempted to answer the question whether, the principle of compulsory insurance connected with the receipt of direct payments increased the interest of farmers in state-subsidized insurance. The article used data from Statistical Yearbooks of Central Statistical Office, reports of insurance companies submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network). The analysis covered detailed FADN agricultural accounting data for 2009-2015.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81834857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earnings Test, Non-Actuarial Adjustments and Flexible Retirement","authors":"A. Börsch-Supan, Klaus Härtl, D. N. Leite","doi":"10.1016/J.ECONLET.2018.09.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ECONLET.2018.09.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86210966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of Compliance With Disclosure Requirements of IFRS 4: Evidence From Quoted Insurance Companies in Nigeria","authors":"Muideen Adeseye Awodiran","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3317812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3317812","url":null,"abstract":"Publicly quoted companies are expected to fully comply with disclosure requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) during the preparation and presentation of their financial reports. However, this is far from what is obtainable in real situation; as evident in the existing literature. Hence, this study examined the determinants of compliance with disclosure requirements of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS 4 - Insurance contracts) among quoted insurance companies in Nigeria; the study further examined the influence of four company attributes (leverage, profitability, liquidity, and size) on the extent of compliance. With the aid of a self-constructed compliance checklist, an index was derived to quantify the level of compliance with disclosure requirement of IFRS 4; after applying the checklist to the 2012-2014 annual reports of sample companies. The study used panel regression technique to examine the influence of the four company attributes on the extent of compliance. The results showed an aggregate mean compliance of 80.38% to IFRS 4 disclosure requirements. A significant positive relationship was found between the level of compliance and company liquidity, and profitability (both at 5% level of significance), while a significant negative relationship was found between company leverage and extent of compliance (at 10% significance level). The study recommended among others that; regulators’ compliance enforcement and monitoring mechanism be improved upon, as well as exercising great caution and put in more attention while assessing the disclosure compliance of highly leveraged companies.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84356306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Right Deprivation in the Legal Regulation Mechanism of Civil Property Relations","authors":"A. Kostruba","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.4034445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4034445","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines aspects of how deprivation of a civil right forms when such rights can determine a possible decrease in quality of life. Authors explore this problem in accordance with provisions of the civil legislation and form practical means for application of the right deprivation mechanism based on the analysis of international legislations. In particular, possibilities of estate seizures and gradual transformation of formalized law space into doctrinal subsystem are analyzed. The work investigates the possibility to use measures of both state and private influence in this field and presents prognostic components that can affect regulation variations of estate seizure of estates based on an agreed-upon procedure between states. A different procedure is proposed for joint ownership and realization of a provision on managing land and ecological legislations as a field of civil relations. The practical aim of the work can be applied to solving disputes regarding the need for joint regulation of civil property relations in international and local civil law. Measures that determine the possibility for structural and comprehensive informing of certain forms and structures of legal science are implemented.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88107250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transparency Loopholes in US Life Insurance Investments","authors":"Christopher B. Tobe","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3267264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3267264","url":null,"abstract":"Fees via spread are much larger than disclosed, weak state regulation leads to risks much higher than reported.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90416025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who's Holding Out? An Experimental Study of the Benefits and Burdens of Eminent Domain","authors":"Abel M. Winn, M. McCarter","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2437405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2437405","url":null,"abstract":"A substantial literature identifies seller holdout as a serious obstacle to land assembly, implying that eminent domain is an appropriate policy response. We conduct a series of laboratory experiments to test this view. We find that when there is no competition and no eminent domain, land assembly suffers from costly delay and failed assembly; participants lose 18.1% of the available surplus. Much of the inefficiency is due to low offers from the buyers (“buyer holdout�?) rather than strategic holdout among sellers. When buyers can exercise eminent domain the participants lose 18.6% of the surplus. This loss comes from spending money to influence the fair market price and forcing sellers to sell even when the sellers value the property more than the buyer. Introducing weak competition in the form of a less valuable substitute parcel of land reduces delay by 35.7% and virtually eliminates assembly failure, so that only 11.5% of the surplus is lost.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85633420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Blake, N. El Karoui, R. MacMinn, Stéphane Loisel
{"title":"Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2015-16 Update","authors":"D. Blake, N. El Karoui, R. MacMinn, Stéphane Loisel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3058645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3058645","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics contains 16 contributions to the academic literature all dealing with longevity risk and capital markets. Draft versions of the papers were presented at Longevity 11: The Eleventh International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference that was held in Lyon, France on 8-9 September 2015. It was hosted by Institut de Science Financiere et d'Assurance (ISFA), Universite Lyon 1, Lyon, and co-hosted by Laboratoire de Science Financiere et d'Assurances, Lyon; Laboratoire de Probabilites et Modeles Aleatoires, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris; Pensions Institute, Cass Business School, City University of London, UK; and the LoLitA (Longevity with Lifestyle Adjustments) ANR research project team. It was sponsored by Prudential Financial, SCOR, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, the Society of Actuaries (SOA), EY, Milliman, Reinsurance Group of America, Aon Benfield, Guy Carpenter, PRIM’ACT, and SINALYS.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90637278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Spatial Structure and Property Rights","authors":"F. Deng","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3031436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3031436","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between urban spatial structure and property rights or institutions at large is an understudied topic. This paper summarizes related literature and examines the impacts of urban structure on property rights from five perspectives: property rights autonomy and transportation technology, market competition of bundled goods, spatial market structure, ex post efficiency, and inertia of the city. These five perspectives together offer a realistic approach to understand many urban property rights phenomena, such as private residential communities (which features homeowners association or HOA) being mostly located outside the city center, leasehold communities (such as shopping malls) often found in the center or subcenters, rental more desirable by the poor, as well as public institutions’ dominance in central cities.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85304974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'The Past, Present, and Future of Resulting Trusts'","authors":"J. Mee","doi":"10.1093/CLP/CUX003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CLP/CUX003","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the nature and future of resulting trusts, and offers a critique of the Birks/Chambers theory of resulting trusts. It argues that the current law cannot be explained, as the Birks/Chambers theory suggests, on the basis of the reversal of unjust enrichment. Instead, the law of resulting trusts is based on an old fiction whereby the owner of property is regarded as holding a beneficial interest which may be retained when the legal ownership has been transferred to another person. Unfortunately, this ‘retention’ idea does not provide a doctrinally satisfying justification for the current law. A logical response would be to discard those aspects of the law of resulting trusts that depend on the retention idea and, therefore, to dispense with presumed resulting trusts. The article argues that, in fact, in English law the purchase-money resulting trust has already been made irrelevant by the common intention constructive trust. However, the article argues for the continued recognition of gap-filling (i.e. ‘automatic’) resulting trusts on the basis that an alternative justification can be identified for such trusts.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80130453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perception of Uninsured Person Towards the Life Insurance Policy","authors":"Rabindra Ghimire","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3042662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3042662","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to explore the reason behind of unwillingness of purchasing life insurance policies. It also examines the differences on opinion of respondents and their level of education, income, expenditure, and fixed asset. A structured dichotomous questionnaire was used to obtain the perception of 300 uninsured respondents using purposive sampling method. Mode and Mann Whitney U test have been used to find the perception and difference on perception of respondents respectively. The study concluded that both financial and non-financial reasons affected the respondents. These are reasons likely to be the dependency over the relatives in the time of hardship, low bonus rate of life insurance, and sufficient property they have. Similarly, mistrusting psychology over life insurance, perceiving the low quality services of company, lack of convincing capacity of agents, and complex claims settlement process are seemed to be the non-financial causes. Inferential statistic show that level of education and expenditure do not make difference on perception of respondents but assets and income have shown the greater influence the perception of uninsured significantly. It has been suggested to concerned authority to increase the social faith over insurance by different means like awareness campaign, introducing the investment linked type product, improving the service quality and increasing the financial performance of the companies. Government should offer financial incentives to increase the demand of insurance product.","PeriodicalId":82443,"journal":{"name":"Real property, probate, and trust journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82278587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}