This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

positive relation between self-insurance and state taxes is detected, consistent with consumers opting to self-insure rather … demand is largely inelastic, e.g., automobile liability coverage, taxes do not affect self-insurance …

exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …

religious organization are able to insure their consumption stream against income shocks and find strong insurance effects for … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for … alternative form of insurance for both whites and blacks though the mechanism by which religious organizations provide insurance …

This paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no … 1970-1998, a period in which many states adopted compulsory insurance regulations and/or no-fault laws. Using an … instrumental variables approach, we find evidence that automobile insurance has moral hazard costs, leading to an increase in …

Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear … some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such … insurance company in effect serves as a retailer to homeowners of short positions in real estate futures markets or of put …

mechanisms? This paper shows that under perfect insurance, marginal utility should grow at the same rate for all consumers, and … correlated with it under perfect insurance, including illness, being fired from a job, etc …

rate among these children. Because not all of the take-up of public insurance among eligible children is accounted for by … children who transfer from being uninsured to having public insurance, our results suggest that there may be some crowd-out of … private insurance coverage; the upper bound crowd-out rate we calculate is 46 percent …