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credit. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade-off between the propensity to search for beneficial insurance or … consumer credit, and marginal savings on insurance policy or consumer credit. Under price dispersion the indirect utility … insurance or the complete consumer credit. The comparative static analysis of the saddle point of the utility function discovers …
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credit. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade-off between the propensity to search for beneficial insurance or … consumer credit, and marginal savings on insurance policy or consumer credit. Under price dispersion the indirect utility … insurance or the complete consumer credit. The comparative static analysis of the saddle point of the utility function discovers …
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presented as the increase in the willingness to pay for insurance. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade …-off between the propensity to search for proficient insurance and marginal savings on insurance policy. Under price dispersion the … indirect utility function takes the form of cubic parabola, where the saddle point represents the comprehensive insurance. The …
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. Should he exert more effort when he becomes more risk-averse? For instance, should we expect more risk-averse drivers to … presented in Jewitt (1989). We first extend the standard models of self-insurance and self-protection, and show that the …
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crisis, the role of the insurance companies is undeniable. This because enable households and businesses to manage their … risks effectively, ensuring the recovery and even reunification their patrimony. The competitiveness of the insurance sector … needs and the profitability of the insurance companies. This is because the consumer has changed in recent years, he became …
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Given the possibility to modify the probability of a loss, will a profit-maximizing insurer engage in loss prevention or is it in his interest to increase the loss probability? This paper investigates this question. First, we calculate the expected profit maximizing loss probability within an...
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Standard decision theoretic models take as given that agents have perfect self-awareness; they have complete knowledge of thier own abilities. In the first part of the paper we combine philosophical and empirical arguments to attack the perfect awareness assumption. In the second part we ask...
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This note extends the standard theory of intertemporal consumer preferences with regard environmental goods and services. It proposes an intertemporal dependent preferences framework that generates a ?persistence effect? consistent with consumer?s environmental friendly behaviours. Given the...
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by Allais may be efficient for agents averse to the risk of making errors. Such simplification is likely to be an …
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