a decentralized way. In our benchmark model the two countries always agree on a centralized regulation policy. In …

stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the …

The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation …

. We uncover a trade-off between stimulus and insurance, as high-debt individuals gain considerably from transfers, but …

formal insurance in a setting where donors make redistributive transfers to anonymously paired recipients. We find that … donors reduce their transfers to recipients who don’t take-up insurance, and that this effect is larger for donors who hold … the ex ante belief that the recipient is more likely to take-up insurance. The findings are consistent with a model of a …

Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

People often fail to insure against catastrophes, even when insurance is subsidized. Even when insuring homes, many … homeowners still underinsure the full value of their assets. Some researchers have suggested using long-term insurance contracts … to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine insurance decisions in a computer-administered experiment that makes several …

This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential … regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation … have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more government debt over time. We find that prudential regulation …

In this paper, we study regulation of externalities involving many small-scale polluters, where the damages from … such regulations should be designed and combined. We find that the optimal regulation design crucially depends on the type … technology regulation encourages cleaner technologies in high damage areas, but discourages their use in low damage areas …