This paper examines the relationship between insurance and economic growth in 20 countries for the period 2006–2015. Insurance activity is measured through three distinctive proxies such as net written premiums, penetration and density. The Hausman statistics confirmed that fixed effect model...

We study adverse selection on annuity markets in a general-equilibrium model of the closed economy. Agents differ in their health type and invest their assets on the annuity market. Without informational asymmetries themodel features a separating equilibrium in which each agent obtains an...

We study a closed economy featuring heterogeneous agents and exhibiting endogenous economic growth due to interfirm external effects. Individual agents differ in terms of their mortality profile. At birth, nature assigns a health status to each agent. Health type is private information and...