Informal insurance in social networks

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2008.01.008MaRDI QIDQ960241zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francis Bloch, Garance Genicot, Debraj Ray

Publication date 16 December 2008

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2008.01.008

zbMATH Keywords

social networksrisk sharingnormssparsenessinformal insurancereciprocity networkstable networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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