What We Are Reading Today: ‘Financial Economics of Insurance’

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Updated 17 July 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Financial Economics of Insurance’

Authors: Ralph S.J. Koijen and Motohiro Yogo

“Financial Economics of Insurance” provides a unified framework to study the impact of financial and regulatory frictions as well as imperfect competition on all insurer decisions.

The book covers all facets of the modern insurance sector, guiding readers through its complexities with empirical facts, institutional details, and quantitative modeling.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overinvested’ by Nina Bandelj

Updated 17 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overinvested’ by Nina Bandelj

Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point—how we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work.

At the turn of the 20th century, children went from being economically useful, often working to support families, to being seen by their parents as vulnerable and emotionally priceless.