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We extend Akerlof (1970)'s 'Market for Lemons' by assuming that some buyers are overconfident. Buyers in our model receive a noisy signal about the quality of the good that is on display for sale. Overconfident buyers do not update according to Bayes' rule but take the noisy signal at face...
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's (1976) model of competitive insurance. I allow for stochastic contract offers by insurance firms and show that a unique …
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Funeral Aid Associations (FAAs) in Northeast Thailand offer micro funeral insurance at affordable premium levels while … the insurance. Compared to many other micro insurance schemes, however, FAAs do not seem to face adverse effects of this … of a sufficient number of low-risk individuals, who deliberately buy insurance despite what their risk types would advice …
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We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamiccontract has insurance companies offeringcontracts where the terms of the contract … on individualpast performance (like in car insurances). Weinvestigate whether allowing insurance companies to offer …
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We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamiccontract has insurance companies offeringcontracts where the terms of the contract … on individualpast performance (like in car insurances). Weinvestigate whether allowing insurance companies to offer …
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Asymmetric information is an important phenomenon in insurance markets, but the empirical evidence on the extent of … crucial to test for asymmetric information in specific insurance markets. In this paper, we analyse a recent data set on … automobile insurance in Germany, the largest such market in Europe. We present and compare a variety of statistical testing …
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to a catastrophe. Distinct from the existing literature on insurance cycles, we model optimal contracting by competitive … insurance cycle …
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We rationalize a special type of sharing information which can typically be found in markets for occupational disability insurances. There, firms share information about acceptances and rejections of an applicant. We set up a multiple-step signalling model with uninformed agents and endogenize...
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We study a competitive insurance market in which insurers have an imperfect informative advantage over policyholders … levels, the persistent profitability and the pooling of risk observed in some insurance markets. Furthermore, we find that a … lower market concentration may entail an increase in insurance premia. …
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