This paper examines how digital finance development affects household risk sharing in China. We provide convincing evidence that households that experience idiosyncratic negative shocks on income growth exhibit a disproportionally lower level of reduction in idiosyncratic consumption growth in...

Risk management decisions provide a means to elicit individuals' risk preferences empirically. In such a context, the literature often presumes that the decision to invest in risk management and the benefit of this investment occur contemporaneously. There is, however, no consensus in the...

This article is intended to provide a basic set of frequently asked questions on captive insurance companies. The questions are in no way meant to be exhaustive on the subject, but rather solely cover certain basic uniform questions potential captive insurance company owners need to ask before...