. We examine the effect of this unisex mandate on risk segmentation in the German health insurance market. While gender … used to be a pricing factor in Germany's private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in … the social health insurance (SHI) sector. The unisex mandate makes PHI relatively more attractive for women and less …

We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies … charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (which includes third … that consumers are too confused or too poorly informed to arbitrage and that sellers of car insurance do not implement the …

private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and … examine the role of uniform and nonuniform social insurance to supplement a general income tax when neither public nor private … (1971) equilibrium emerges in the private insurance market and low-wage/low-risk individuals are not fully insured. We show …

The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community …

We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

drive the demand for risk reduction, and some to alter both. Our findings suggest that 30 percent of all insurance payments …