Could insurance provide an alternative to fiscal support in crisis response?

Leigh Wolfrom

No 40, OECD Working Papers on Fiscal Federalism from OECD Publishing

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant economic disruptions and revenue losses for business impacted by workplace closure measures aimed at restraining the spread of the virus. Governments provided extensive monetary and fiscal support to address liquidity risks and mitigate the potential for mass insolvencies as few businesses had applicable insurance coverage for these types of losses. This paper examines the fiscal and insurance sector responses to the economic disruptions resulting from COVID-19 workplace closures, the challenges to the availability of insurance coverage for this risk and some of the challenges and risks related to large-scale fiscal support for businesses. It also includes a discussion of the potential contribution of a loss-sharing arrangement between governments and insurance markets for pandemic-related business interruption losses as a means of enhancing the contribution of insurance markets to providing financial protection in the context of future pandemics.

Keywords: crisis management; fiscal federalism; insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G22 H12 H51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09-30
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