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influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …
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Incentivizing unobservable effort in risky environments, such as in insurance, credit, and labor markets, is vital as …-compatibility. Two independent large-scale behavioral experiments framed in an insurance context support the hypotheses derived from our …
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Cyber risk insurance has been introduced for more than two decades in the United States, yet the insurance market for … cyber risk is tiny amounting to 1% ($6.5 billion) of premiums in the U.S. property-casualty insurance market in 2021. In … this paper, we analyze what constrains the insurance industry from providing larger capacity. We argue that cyber risk is …
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This article examines the determinants of cyber insurance participation, the amount of coverage offered, and the … offer cyber insurance to capitalize on their competitive advantage in understanding and pricing cyber risks and to balance … their risks between investment and underwriting. We find limited evidence that insurers participate in cyber insurance to …
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We conduct a comprehensive asset pricing analysis for the U.S. property/liability insurance industry using monthly data … the returns of property/liability insurance stocks in a satisfactory way. We adapt the model proposed by Adrian, Friedman …, and Muir (2015) for financial institutions and define an insurance-specific five-factor asset pricing model (INS5), which …
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Principal-agent models in which the agent has access to private information before a contract is signed are a cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights are reflected by the behavior of subjects in the...
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We study an adverse selection problem in which information that is imperfectly correlated with the agent's type becomes public ex post. Unbounded penalties are ruled out by assuming that the agent is wealth constrained. The following conclusions emerge. If the agent's utility is increasing in...
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We study the effect of additional private information in an agency model with an endogenous information structure. If more private information becomes available to the agent, this may hurt the agent, benefit the principal, and affect the total surplus ambiguously
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The analysis of adverse selection problems in seller-buyer relationships has typically been based on the assumption that private information is uncertifiable, while in practice it may well be certifiable. If a buyer has certifiable private information, he can conceal evidence, but he cannot...
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