with banking and insurance sectors, we show that credit risk transfer can be beneficial when banks face uniform demand for …

We analyze the effect of counterparty risk on insurance contracts using the case of credit risk transfer in banking. In …

, additionally, by a banking sector that channels households' funds to firms and eliminates idiosyncratic risk. In equilibrium … banking sector's translation of borrowing rates into lending rates and vice versa. …

degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent and transitory income shocks. We find some partial insurance of permanent … income shocks with more insurance possibilities for the college educated and those nearing retirement. We find little …

.3%-0.4%. Mandatory insurance regimes in Europe absorb the negative short-run effect of a flood, while the National Flood Insurance …

This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural … system change are numerous, including failure to recognise the role of state guarantees in enabling private insurance markets …, mistaken legal objections against mandatory insurance, distributional conflicts between central and state governments and re …

Individual moral hazard engendered by health insurance and monopolistic production are both typical phenomena of drug … insurance against the risk of drug expenses. In contrast, the social welfare criterion suggests that individuals should purchase … more insurance coverage than they choose to do in the market equilibrium. …

Mutual insurance companies and stock insurance companies are different forms of organized risk sharing: policyholders … necessary for a stock insurer to offer insurance at a fair premium, but not for a mutual. In the presence of an ownermanager …

We analyse a 2-period competitive insurance market which is characterized by the simultaneous presence of standard … which patient consumers use high effort and buy a profit-making insurance contract with high coverage, whereas impatient …