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The paper analyzes a monopolistic insurer’s pricing strategies when potential customers differ in risk aversion and their type cannot be observed by the insurer. Our model builds on Schlesinger (1983), who derived optimal nonlinear pricing strategies for competitive and monopolistic insurance...
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The present paper analyzes the demand for insurance when the insurer has incomplete information about types of potential customers. We assume that customers´ risk preferences cannot be distinguished by the insurer. Therefore, the standard result in insurance economics that the insurer...
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In dieser Arbeit wird das Konzept einer wertorientierten Steuerung von Lebensversicherungsunternehmen basierend auf stochastischen Prozessen vorgestellt. Dabei werden die stochastischen Prozesse dazu verwendet, die zufälligen wertbestimmenden Parameter der Unternehmensbewertung zu modellieren....
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We examine the impact of intermediation on insurance market transparency and performance. In a differentiated insurance market under imperfect information, consumers can gain information about product suitability by consulting an intermediary. We analyze current broker compensation methods:...
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This article deals with the impact of intermediaries on insurance market transparency and performance. In a market exhibiting product differentiation and coexistence of perfectly and imperfectly informed consumers, competition among insurers leads to non-existence of a pure-strategy market...
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In dieser Arbeit wird ein Regressionsmodell vorgestellt, das den Einfluss der Balanced-Scorecard-Werteparameter auf den Unternehmenswert schätzt. Dadurch wird es möglich, die Bedeutung der unterschiedlichen Wertstellhebel für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg des Unternehmens exakt zu...
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We study multivariate prevention decisions by disentangling early and late prevention. We show how the modularity of prevention and several measures of prevention efficiency interact with the agent’s risk attitude. We derive comparative statics with respect to impatience, loss severity, and...
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This paper studies long-term private health insurance (PHI) in Germany. It describes the main actuarial principles of premium calculation and relates these to existing theory. In the German PHI policyholders do not commit to renewing their insurance contracts, but insurers commit to offering...
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Unternehmen stehen heute aufgrund ökonomischer Anreize verstärkt vor der Entscheidung, die bisher intern gelagerte Datenverarbeitung und Geschäftsprozesse auf einen externen Anbieter von Cloud-Computing-Services auszulagern. Diese neuartige Form des IT-Outsourcings verändert jedoch die...
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