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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 …
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The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773917
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …
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that considers both diagnostic uncertainty of sellers and the effects of insurance coverage of consumers in a unified … uncertainty decreases the rate of efficient service provision and leads to less trade. In theory, insurance also decreases the … net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …
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insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates …
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We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …
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We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can exert search effort but face …
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A standard hidden information model is considered to study the influence of the a priori productivity distribution on the optimal contract. A priori more productive (hazard rate dominant) agents work less, enjoy lower rents, but generate a higher expected surplus.
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Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a contract depends on the average type attracted by the...
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