This paper demonstrates the existence of adverse selection in the group insurance market with no individual choice. We provide evidence against the “conventional wisdom” that group insurance mitigates adverse selection because of the mixture of high risks and low risks. We show, however,...

In the context of insurance industry, we provide a theoretical and empirical framework to analyze the tradeoffs between three fundamental goals of business: growth, profitability, and safety. Insurers balance on premium and underwriting standards to optimize one goal constrained by the other...