case. We show that in an insurance context, being insured against losses that may be incurred in a real-effort task changes … subjects' self-confidence. Our novel experimental design allows us to disentangle selection into insurance from the effects of … uninsured subjects are underconfident while those that obtain insurance have well-calibrated beliefs. Our results suggest that …

case. We show that in an insurance context, being insured against losses that may be incurred in a real-effort task changes … subjects' self-confidence. Our novel experimental design allows us to disentangle selection into insurance from the effects of … uninsured subjects are underconfident while those that obtain insurance have well-calibrated beliefs. Our results suggest that …

overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader context, the results provide an explanation for the overconfidence of …

transmission of this information will not cause any concern. Such a form of insurance is based on the principle of mutuality …. Research limitations/implications: Mutuality-based insurance is therefore a path based on solutions of the past (primary forms … of insurance), but at the same time is seen as a response to the lack of adaptation of insurance products to the actual …

In this paper, we ask under what conditions norms can enhance welfare by mitigating moral hazard in income insurance … social norms and internalized norms. We study how optimal insurance arrangements, the behavior of insured individuals, and …

We examine insurance markets with two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don.t. In … positive correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, as in the standard economic models of adverse … selection, but there also exist separating equilibria that predict a negative correlation between the amount of insurance …

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 …

A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should … be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. We analyze this issue within a model with …

In complex insurance contracts, individuals can use sophisticated strategies to avoid out-of-pocket expenses …