Consumption Risk-Sharing in Social Networks
Consumption Risk-Sharing in Social Networks
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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English
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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We develop a model in which connections between individuals serve as social collateral to enforce informal insurance payments. We show that: (i) The degree of insurance is governed by the expansiveness of the network, measured with the per capita number of connections that groups have with the rest of the community. "Two-dimensional" networks—like...
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Consumption Risk-Sharing in Social Networks
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1499083488
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1499083488
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0002-8282
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1944-7981
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10.1257/aer.104.1.149
