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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812974
overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader context, the results provide an explanation for the overconfidence of …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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In complex insurance contracts, individuals can use sophisticated strategies to avoid out-of-pocket expenses …
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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 study the impact of insurance on the amount of fraud in a physician-patient relationship. In a market for credence …
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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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