This paper demonstrates the existence of adverse selection in the group insurance market with no individual choice. We provide evidence against the “conventional wisdom” that group insurance mitigates adverse selection because of the mixture of high risks and low risks. We show, however,...

Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift besteht aus vier Kapiteln und adressiert Kernfragen in den Bereichen Versicherungstransaktionen (Teil I und IV) sowie Versicherungsbetrieb und -strategien (Teil II und III). Die aufgeworfenen Forschungsfragen sind sowohl für die akademische Forschung als...

A central matter of dispute in the internationalization literature is the existence and shape of a systematic relationship between the degree of internationalization and firm performance (I-P relationship). Considering the global insurance industry, we show that the I-P relationship depends on...

We develop a dynamic game model for efficient catastrophe risk-sharing that allows decision makers to derive optimal pricing, capital, and buying decisions in one equilibrium. Existing catastrophe insurance models focus on either the primary insurance market or the reinsurance market, thus...