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these changes should have affected the equilibrium prices of property-casualty insurance policies, and explores the extent … insurance policy and industry data on premiums earned. Although the predicted impact of the changes in the tax rules enacted in … longest-tail line of insurance, in 1987), it is small relative to the variability of the actual loss experience …
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Since the passage of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, corporate terrorism insurance is sold as a separate … and terrorism insurance. Using a unique dataset of insurance policies purchased by large U.S. firms, combined with … financial information of the corporate clients and of the insurance provider, we apply a two-stage least squares (2SLS) approach …
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A nationally representative sample of respondents estimated their fatality risks from four types of natural disasters, and indicated whether they favored governmental disaster relief. For all hazards, including auto accident risks, most respondents assessed their risks as being below average,...
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, underinsure against catastrophic risks, and allow extraneous factors to influence insurance purchases and other protective … above anomalies, we consider many different insurance-related goals, organized in a taxonomy, and we consider the effects of …
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Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
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I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
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Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) varies widely; the consequences of...
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We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
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We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First, we compare the extent of misallocation among firms within countries. We document high variation in firms' marginal product of capital (MPK), implying that countries could produce...
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It is often argued that additional checks and balances provide economic agents with better protection from expropriation of their wealth or productive capital. We demonstrate that in a dynamic political economy model this intuition may be flawed. Surprisingly, increasing the number of veto...
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