Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

Guaranteed renewability is a prominent feature in many health and life insurance markets. It is well established in the … fair price for low risk types provides full insurance against reclassification risk. We develop a model that includes … unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over …

We study the impact of insurance on the amount of fraud in a physician-patient relationship. In a market for credence …

People often fail to insure against catastrophes, even when insurance is subsidized. Even when insuring homes, many … homeowners still underinsure the full value of their assets. Some researchers have suggested using long-term insurance contracts … to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine insurance decisions in a computer-administered experiment that makes several …

We study the demand for actuarially fair Long Term Care (LTC hereafter) insurance in a setting where autonomous agents … themselves, while no agent wishes to buy complete insurance. We then show that the comparison of marginal utility of income (as … opposed to consumption) across health states depends on (i) whether agents do buy LTC insurance at equilibrium or not, (ii …

We consider a competitive insurance market with adverse selection. Unlike the standard models, we assume that … limited liability afforded via bankruptcy laws. Government assistance is calculated ex post of any insurance benefits. This … alters the individuals' demand for insurance coverage. In turn, this affects equilibria in various insurance models of …

fair perfect insurance. In the SE all agents are savers throughout their lives. The informational asymmetry precludes the … rather small, whilst those of PE versus no annuities at all (NAE) are rather large. An imperfect insurance is better than no … insurance at all, both at the microeconomic and at the macroeconomic level. -- annuity markets ; adverse selection ; endogenous …