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This paper examines uberrimae fidei (utmost good faith) with adverse selection in an insurance market. If consumers … the (equitable) non-strict enforcement (judicial ruling) of contracts of insurance can be efficiency enhancing as it can …
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price automobile insurance more accurately, creating individualized prices for consumers. The welfare effects of lower … prices are straightforward, but we also consider that consumers have heterogeneous valuations of privacy that they may lose … its effect on equilibrium prices and welfare. We find a welfare effect equal to the loss in privacy, but conclude that the …
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This paper investigates bidder's covert behavior of endogenous information acquisition on her opponents' valuations in first price auction model with independent private values. Such an information acquisition setting leads to bidimensional type space and bidimensional strategy space. We...
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The recent activity in pension buyouts and bespoke longevity swaps suggests that a significant process of aggregation of longevity exposures is under way, led by major investment banks and buyout firms with the support of leading reinsurers. As regulatory capital charges and limited reinsurance...
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Why don't people buy annuities? Several explanations have been provided by the previous literature: large fraction of preannuitized wealth in retirees' portfolios; adverse selection; bequest motives; and medical expense uncertainty. This paper uses a quantitative model to assess the importance...
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various types of agricultural insurance. Insuring small-scale farmers against crop losses to adverse weather or other hazards … has attracted public sector involvement in the provision of agricultural insurance in many countries among which Romania … insurance. This will require the establishment of a framework for responding to severe systemic events affecting agricultural …
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With the advance of online social networks, the screening of applicants during hiring can extend beyond the usual application material. Although browsing the online profile of an applicant raises ethical issues, this practice potentially improves the job matching, at virtually no cost to the...
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This paper aims at defining a set of privacy metrics (quantitative and qualitative) in the case of the relation between … a privacy protector ,and an information gatherer .The aims with such metrics are : -to allow to assess and compare … different user scenarios and their differences ;for examples of scenarios see [4]; -to define a notion of privacy boundary, and …
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a new insurance product in rural China. Specifically, we conduct a set of insurance games with a random subset of … farmers. Our findings show that playing insurance games improves insurance take-up in real life by 48%. Exploring the … probability of disasters, or learning of insurance benefits, but is driven mainly by the experience acquired in playing the …
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, increases in loadings are not necessarily followed by increases in deductibles, since in equilibrium insurance may be Giffen …
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