Can we insure ourselves against future recessions and crashes?: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-costs-of-business-cycles
How much would you pay to avoid a recession? In other words, can we place a price on the economic costs of business cycle fluctuations? Standard economic models give some clues but they bring difficulties. Can we account for the known difficulties with these models, or is it yet more complicated?
In the real world, might government policy have already acted to reduce the costs of fluctuations?
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-costs-of-business-cycles
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