We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two … minimizes strategic concerns. The introduction of an insurance treatment alters solidarity in both experiments. We find crowding …-out effects in the first setting with strategic motives, while there are even crowding-in effects due to insurance availability in …

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

The valuation of insurance liabilities has traditionally been dealt with by actuaries, who closely monitored underlying …

This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We … show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a … endowment. It is varied whether they can purchase an insurance before the loss is determined. The other half of the subjects can …

This paper studies the stochastic modeling of market drawdown events and the fair valuation of insurance contracts … asset value. We first consider a vanilla insurance contract whereby the protection buyer pays a constant premium over time … of the drawdown time, which will serve as the building block for drawdown insurance with early cancellation or drawup …

A simple formula for non-discriminatory insurance pricing is introduced. This formula is based on the assumption that … certain individual (discriminatory) policyholder information is not allowed to be used for insurance pricing. The suggested …