Jaffe, Sonia; Malani, Anup; Reif, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze the value of insurance when individuals have access to credit markets. Loans allow consumers to smooth … financial shocks over time, decreasing the value of consumption smoothing from insurance. We derive formulas for the value of … insurance that can be taken to data, and show how that value depends on individual characteristics and features of loans. We …