endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater … exposure to exchange rate movements than households, which is reflected in higher levels of information acquisition and less … rate information strongly increases in various proxies for stake size. Second, households who perceive higher costs of …

The article relates to the attractiveness of FX housing loans for households which led to over increase in EU countries …

Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? Why don’t financial … agricultural production risk. [BREAD Working paper No.33]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/303.pdf]. …

idiosyncratic losses enhance the benefits of index insurance. Formal index insurance enables households to take more risk even in …Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing countries often … receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and effects of, offering formal index …

This paper shows that the risk-bearing capacity of securities brokers and dealers is a strong determinant of risk … premia and the volatility of returns in commodity markets. I measure risk-bearing capacity as the fraction of broker …-dealer financial assets relative to the total financial assets of broker-dealers and households. This variable has particularly strong …