Kahn, Charles M.; Panjwani, Ahyan; Santos, João A. C. - 2024
In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … our model. Banks increased lending to the agricultural sector in counties with higher insurance coverage after 1980, even …