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Health insurance is increasingly provided through managed competition, in which subsidies for consumers and risk adjustment for insurers are key market design instruments. We illustrate that subsidies offer two advantages over risk adjustment in markets with adverse selection. They provide...
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dynamic pricing regulation lowers social welfare as the benefit from improved premium stability is outweighed by the cost of … reduced insurer participation. The welfare loss from stricter dynamic pricing regulation could be mitigated if the government …
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In this chapter, we review the development of the insurance industry in China. We provide a comprehensive discussion of its regulatory framework, major insurance segments, market structure, InsurTech, social insurance and the prospects for the future development
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important are the distortions in the greater regulation of banks that differentially limit risk-taking across alternative … COVID-19 pandemic shock. We argue that tighter bank regulation has created incentives for nonbanks to increase their …
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, and discusses their implications for the financial system and regulation. We document that the balance sheet share of … how these shifts impact the financial sector's sensitivity to macroprudential regulation. While raising capital … undergone significant transformation, with implications for macroprudential policy and financial regulation …
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substitutes, performing substantially similar activities, with banks inside and NBFIs outside the perimeter of banking regulation … regulation and are such that banks remain special as both routine and emergency liquidity providers to NBFIs. We support this …
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We analyze the effect of a major central bank digital currency (CBDC) - the digital euro - on the payment industry to find remarkably heterogeneous effects. Stock prices of U.S. payment firms decrease, while stock prices of European payment firms increase in response to positive announcements on...
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Is shareholder interest in corporate social responsibility driven by pecuniary motives (abnormal rates of return) or non-pecuniary ones (willingness to sacrifice returns to address various firm externalities)? To answer this question, we categorize the literature into seven tests: (1) costs of...
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Almost 50 million Americans are burdened by the need to repay almost $2 trillion in student loan debt, while at the same time having to save for retirement. This article analyzes the potential impact of the 2022 SECURE 2.0 Act reform which permits employers to match contributions for student...
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A rent guarantee insurance (RGI) policy makes a limited number of rent payments to the landlord on behalf of an insured tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative equilibrium model of housing insecurity and show it...
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