This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in … 1980s and 1990s. The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 was driven by financial liberalization and a hard …

This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in … 1980s and 1990s. The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 was driven by financial liberalization and a hard …

equity premium and longevity insurance in her retirement portfolio. Even without bequests, she will not fully annuitize …

This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …

with banking and insurance sectors, we show that credit risk transfer can be beneficial when banks face uniform demand for …

Mutual insurance companies and stock insurance companies are different forms of organized risk sharing: policyholders … necessary for a stock insurer to offer insurance at a fair premium, but not for a mutual. In the presence of an ownermanager …

We analyse a 2-period competitive insurance market which is characterized by the simultaneous presence of standard … which patient consumers use high effort and buy a profit-making insurance contract with high coverage, whereas impatient …