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 …

Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high risk. We show how to separately identify risk … preferences and risk types using only choices from menus of insurance plans. Our revealed preference approach does not rely on … in insurance plans, offered separately to random cross-sections or offered as part of the same menu to one cross …

impact of insurance on cotton, but, consistent with microeconomic theory, we find significant spillover impacts on investment …This paper examines whether agricultural insurance can boost investment by small scale farmers in West Africa. We … conduct a randomized evaluation to analyze the impacts of index insurance for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso. We find no …

State guaranty funds are quasi-governmental agencies that provide insurance to policyholders against the risk of … insurance company failure. But insurance provided by guaranty funds, like all insurance, creates moral hazard problems … insurance companies to borrow money (i.e., from policyholders). Moreover, the existence of guaranty fund insurance enables …

Natural catastrophes often have catastrophic risks on insurance companies as well as on the insured. Using a very large … dataset on homeowners%u2019 insurance coverage by state, by firm, and by year for the 1984 to 2004 period, this paper … term %u201Cblockbuster catastrophes.%u201D Insurers adapt to these catastrophic risks by raising insurance rates, leading …

with natural hazards, such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Risk management theory suggests protection by insurers and other …, especially after cat events. We then examine clinical evidence to understand why the theory fails. Specifically, we examine … hints as to why the theory fails. We explore these hints in eight theoretical explanations and find the most compelling to …

with natural hazards, such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Risk management theory suggests protection by insurers and other …, especially after cat events. We then examine clinical evidence to understand why the theory fails. Specifically, we examine … hints as to why the theory fails. We explore these hints in eight theoretical explanations and find the most compelling to …

. These may include multi-year insurance contracts, well-enforced regulations, third-party inspections, and alternative risk …

demonstrate that both features deviate from what theory would predict, yet are characteristic of many transactions, not simply …