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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 …
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. This paper explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with private insurance …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream newsvendor-type retailer. We make two assumptions that enrich this simple and well-understood model. First, we consider a multi-period model, in which the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t,...
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presence of source and host country liquidity shocks; 4. moral hazard in international debt contracts; and 5. risk sharing role …
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This study investigates the role of social networks in aligning the incentives of economic agents in settings with incomplete contracts. We study the New York City taxi industry where taxis are often leased and lessee-drivers have worse driving outcomes than owner-drivers as a result of a moral...
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substantially increasing the risk borne by contractors …
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in credit markets and the buildup of risk ex ante. During a systemic crisis, bailouts relax balance sheet constraints and … mitigate the severity of the recession. Ex ante, the anticipation of such bailouts leads to an increase in risk-taking, making …
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