I have already said elsewhere that this would be a rational move on the part of the public sector, because it would remedy a potential “market failure” at a cost that will be both modest and deferred in time.
5 But insurers could also help in another way to ease the residual tensions in credit supply, especially to SMEs, namely simply sticking to their traditional business and increasing their coverage of the risks to which SMEs are typically exposed (fire, theft, liability).