-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance …, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics, background risk, game theory, rationalizability, iterated strict dominance multi …

households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … populated by a large number of long-lived, risk-averse households with homothetic preferences who can invest in risk …-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their …

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 … effects from sovereign risk to domestic insurers. The impact on insurers is larger than for non-financial firms and slightly …

households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … populated by a large number of long-lived, risk-averse households with homothetic preferences who can invest in risk …-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their …

To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the … rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged 15-21 years provide unilateral insurance to their origin … household. Distinguishing by destination and economic activity I show that the level of insurance increases when migrants and …