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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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This paper provides new analytical tools for studying principal-agent problems with adverse selection and limited commitment. By allowing the principal to use general communication devices we overcome the literature's common, but overly restrictive focus on one-shot, direct communication. In...
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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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This paper investigates how additional ex post private information by the agent affects the equilibrium outcome of the monopolistic screening model. In general, the principal always weakly benefits when the agent receives additional private information after the contracting stage. Instead, both...
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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: This paper provides an analytical framework for studying principal-agent problems with adverse selection and limited commitment. By allowing the principal to use noisy communication we solve two fundamental problems of...
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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004This paper provides an analytical framework for studying principal-agent problems with adverse selection and limited commitment. By allowing the principal to use noisy communication we solve two fundamental problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005614494