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. …

Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …