David Webb
Research Interests
Financial Economics and Insurance Economics
Economics of Information
Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
Financial Economics and Insurance Economics
Economics of Information
Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
This paper analyses how firms respond to liquidity shocks when asset prices are endogenously determined through matching frictions. Building on...
We analyse how public health insurance affects private insurance markets in mixed public-private systems. Extending the standard selection framework...
This paper presents a general equilibrium analysis on the interactions between pen- sion plan funding, capital structure, technology choice and the...
Within an asymmetric information set-up in which individuals differ in terms of their risk aversion and can choose whether or not to take preventative...
Compensation schemes often reward success but do not penalize failure. Fixed salaries with stock options or bonuses have this feature. Yet the...
Executive stock options reward success but do not penalise failure. In contrast, the standard principal- agent model implies that pay is normally...
Equilibrium credit rationing in the sense of Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) implies the marginal cost of funds to the borrower is infinite. So borrowers...
Equilibrium credit rationing in the sense of Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) implies the marginal cost of funds to the borrower is infinite. So borrowers...