Risk-Sharing in Village Economies Revisited
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- Tobias Broer & Tessa Bold, 2015. "Risk-Sharing in Village Economies Revisited," 2015 Meeting Papers 1232, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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Risk-sharing; Village economies; Informal insurance; Dynamic limited commitment; Renegotiation-proofness;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2016-03-29 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
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