of the world, individuals acquire skill; however outside investors and individuals inefficiently share risk. We show that … economy enters an endogenous disaster state. We show that the possibility of these disaster states distorts risk prices, even …

This paper presents a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment, pay and incentives under risk aversion and … distorted by the agency problem as firms involving higher risk or disutility choose less talented CEOs. Such firms also pay … higher salaries in the cross-section, but economy-wide increases in risk or the disutility of being a CEO (e.g. due to …

. This paper explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with private insurance …

A significant source of risk arises from uncertainty concerning future government policy. Government action - - tax … preexisting rules. The effects of government relief - - compensation, grandfathering, phase-ins - - on ex ante incentives and risk …

Insurance induces a well-known tradeoff between the welfare gains from risk protection and the welfare losses from … the tradeoff simultaneously, allowing for a relationship between moral hazard and risk protection. An important feature of …, and stoplosses that alter moral hazard as well as risk protection relative to no insurance. I illustrate the properties of …

policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as … for care up to the point where the marginal gains from less risk sharing are just offset by the marginal benefits from …