Talk with CCR and chaire PARI, in Paris, on government intervention and welfare

This afternoon, I will give a brief talk on welfare and optimal policies for government intervention, at CCR, in Paris. I have some slides to present. The presentation is based on a papers we wrote a few years ago, Government Intervention in Catastrophe Insurance Markets: A Reinforcement Learning Approach This paper designs a sequential repeated game of a micro-founded society with three types of agents: individuals, insurers, and a government. Nascent to economics literature, we use Reinforcement Learning (RL), closely related to multi-armed bandit … <a href=“https://freakonometrics.hyp …