Government Risk-Bearing Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, May 1991
The u.s. government bulks large in the nation's financial markets. The huge volume of government-issued and -sponsored debt affects the pricing and volume ofprivate debt and, consequently, resource allocation between competing alternatives. What is often not fully appreciated is the substantial...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1993, 1993
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1993 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Institutional Control and Large-scale, Long-term Hazards
- 2 Ambiguity and Government Risk-Bearing for Low-Probability Events
- 3 Public Insurance of Private Risks: Theory and Evidence from Agriculture
- 4 Government Risk-Bearing in the Financial Sector of a Capitalist Economy
- 5 Perspectives on the Role of Government Risk-Bearing within the Financial Sector
- 6 Government Risk-Bearing: What Works and What Doesn’t
- 7 The PBGC: A Costly Lesson in the Economics of Federal Insurance
- 8 Recent Federal Efforts to Measure and Control Government Risk-Bearing
- 9 Information and Incentives to Improve Government Risk-Bearing