Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

People often fail to insure against catastrophes, even when insurance is subsidized. Even when insuring homes, many … homeowners still underinsure the full value of their assets. Some researchers have suggested using long-term insurance contracts … to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine insurance decisions in a computer-administered experiment that makes several …

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … have important implications for policies that interact with existing informal insurance arrangements. …

Using evidence from Russia, we explore the effect of the introduction of deposit insurance on bank risk. Drawing on … variation in the ratio of firm deposits to total household and firm deposits before the announcement of deposit insurance, so as … to capture the magnitude of the decrease in market discipline after the introduction of deposit insurance, we demonstrate …