can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … respondent has a formal funeral cover increases with income and banking status. However, it is lower for individuals receiving … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates 'standard …

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change … decades, banking crises and sovereign defaults became they key focus since the 1980s. Around this time, the IMF shifted from …