In this paper we show how the order of Linear Stochastic Dominance proposed by Gollier (1995) can be applied to situations with dependent risky assets.

This paper attemps to rationalize the use of insurance covenants in financial contracts, and shows how external financing generates a demand for insurance by risk-neutral entrepreneurs. In our model, the entrepreneur needs external financing for a risky project that can be affected by an...

We discuss how to detect the informational content of household decisions among the explanatory variables of econometric models. Some applications to the choice of automobile insurance contracts and to the demand for life insurance are provided. We show that the information provided by...

In this paper, we propose an empirical analysis of the presence of adverse selection in an insurance market. We first present a theoretical model of a market with adverse selection and we introduce different issues related to transaction costs, accident costs, risk aversion and moral hazard. We...

In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product.