provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The … Italian households do not have access to significant insurance beyond self-insurance. …

opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the …

their role as an insurance devise. Results are derived for the pricing of delivery contracts subject to offset claims and …

-run climate feedbacks. Our non-certainty-equivalent rule for the SCC incorporates precaution, risk insurance, and climate …

from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery … event, more than 95% of residential housing units were covered by insurance, but insurance payments were staggered over 5 … and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of …

Guaranteed renewability is a prominent feature in many health and life insurance markets. It is well established in the … fair price for low risk types provides full insurance against reclassification risk. We develop a model that includes … unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over …

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 … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …