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government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be …&D investors to better share the pipeline risk associated with FDA approval with broader capital markets. Using historical FDA … from offering them. Using various unique data sources, we find that FDA approval risk has a low correlation across drug …
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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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with greater wealth-at-risk are more likely to hold health insurance. The implicit insurance from bankruptcy distorts the …
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model of risk-selection in such settings. Capitation incentivizes insurers to retain low-cost clients and thus improve their …
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Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or … produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfolio-level and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is … particularly challenging because the demands of real-world risk management in financial institutions - in particular, real …
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which financial markets were trying to allocate risk between heterogeneous agents when productive investment opportunities … are scarce. We begin by showing how heterogeneity in terms of risk tolerance can cause financial markets to propagate …
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We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an …
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-contribution (DC) plans that typically contain a minimum benefit guarantee (DC-MB). Risk management techniques must be used to control … the Samp;P500. Calculations show that the true risk-adjusted value of unfunded guarantees in a realistic DC-MB plan equals … 'basis risk' if they chose a non-standard portfolio. However, for large conversions from DB to DC-MB plans, in which there is …
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banks to pursue safer investments in low-risk government securities …
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Financial safety nets are incomplete social contracts that assign responsibility to various economic sectors for preventing, detecting, and paying for potentially crippling losses at financial institutions. This paper uses the theories of incomplete contracts and sequential bargaining to...
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