Informal insurance in social networks

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-58

  Bloch, Francis ^a   Genicot, Garance ^b   Ray, Debraj ^c,d  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Barcelona)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Informal insurance; Norms; Reciprocity network; Risk sharing; Social networks; Sparseness; Stable networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549095982     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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