is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal … can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …" risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions … important role in explaining the aversion to risk manifested in deductible choices. This finding is robust to allowing for …

equilibrium when banks have monopoly power, justifying a Pigouvian tax in this case. …

differences in financial factors, which may reflect differences in country risk and the legal and regulatory framework that banks …

The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international …

This paper investigates the benefits of banks’ direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non …-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host … the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third …

compared in terms of efficiency and power to discriminate between low and high risk clients by employing data from a new …

Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model …