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Optimal Risk Sharing

Optimal Risk Sharing is an economic framework within contract theory that prescribes the efficient allocation of risks between parties by aligning their incentives and risk-bearing capacities such that the resulting contract maximizes expected utility subject to incentive compatibility and participation constraints.

311

Publications

23.8K

Citations

508

Authors

324

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

65

Parents

Publications

311

Incentives and Risk Sharing in Sharecropping

Joseph E. Stiglitz · The Review of Economic Studies · 1974 · 1.4K citations

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Risk Sharing and Incentives in the Principal and Agent Relationship

Steven Shavell · The Bell Journal of Economics · 1979 · 1.3K citations

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The Role of Securities in the Optimal Allocation of Risk-bearing

K. J. Arrow · The Review of Economic Studies · 1964 · 1.2K citations

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Implications of Efficient Risk Sharing without Commitment

Narayana Kocherlakota · The Review of Economic Studies · 1996 · 759 citations

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In Sickness and in Health: Risk Sharing within Households in Rural Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon, Pramila Krishnan · Journal of Political Economy · 2000 · 602 citations

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Authors

508

  1. RW
    Ruodu Wang

    University of Waterloo, Canada

    6 publications · 297 citations

    6

    h-index

  2. GG
    Garance Genicot

    Georgetown University, United States

    4 publications · 467 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. TJ
    Tim J. Boonen

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    4 publications · 88 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. MD
    Michel Denuit

    UCLouvain, Belgium

    4 publications · 161 citations

    4

    h-index

  5. AA
    Attila Ambrus

    Duke University, United States

    4 publications · 77 citations

    4

    h-index

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Institutions

324

  1. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    11 h-index

    13 publications

    542 citations

  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    627 citations

  3. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    11 publications

    242 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    601 citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    886 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    707 citations

  7. Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    719 citations

  8. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    428 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 36 publications · 1.1K citations

    19

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  2. The Review of Economic Studies

    12 publications · 4.5K citations

    12

    h-index

  3. Journal of Economic Theory

    JET · 10 publications · 519 citations

    10

    h-index

  4. American Economic Review

    9 publications · 709 citations

    9

    h-index

  5. Journal of Political Economy

    JPE · 7 publications · 1.7K citations

    7

    h-index

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