management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …