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社会保险、信息揭示与承诺缺失

Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment
Journal of Political Economy · 2021 · Mikhail Golosov、Luigi Iovino

中文摘要

我们研究一个模型中的最优失业保险提供问题,其中行为人私下观察到工作机会的到来,而政府的承诺能力并不完善。承诺不完善意味着完全的信息揭示通常并非最优。社会福利是行为人揭示其私人信息的概率的凸函数。在最优情形下,每位行为人都被提供激励,使其要么完全揭示其私人信息,要么完全不揭示。最优合约可以通过失业保险与残疾津贴的联合体系实现分散化,其方式类似于这些体系在实践中的运用。

Abstract

We study optimal provision of unemployment insurance in a model where agents privately observe arrival of job opportunities and government’s ability to commit is imperfect. Imperfect commitment implies that full information revelation is generally suboptimal. Social welfare is convex in the probability with which agents reveal their private information. In the optimum, each agent is provided with incentives to either fully reveal his private information or not reveal it at all. The optimal contract can be decentralized by a joint system of unemployment and disability benefits in a way that resembles how these systems are used in practice.
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