As part of the green transition, the European cap-and-trade scheme for CO2 emissions will be extended to cover consumer durables. We propose a New Keynesian model that features both, "brown" and "green" durable goods and show that if monetary policy follows a business-as-usual approach, the...

We consider the optimization problem of a large insurance company that wants to maximize the expected utility of its surplus through the optimal control of the proportional reinsurance. In addition, the insurer is exposed to the risk of default of its reinsurer at the worst possible time, a...