authorities design effective policies. -- life insurance demand ; tax incentives ; financial literacy …

find that inflation significantly decreases life insurance demand in China … avoiding estate tax and life insurance demand has seldom been examined in the literature. Following the propagation of an … unanticipated but highly credible hearsay on the implementation of estate tax pilot programme in November of 2012 in Shenzhen, China …

Prior research on the demand for life insurance in household portfolio holdings has not made a clear distinction … examines the relationship between household portfolio allocation decisions and the demand for life insurance in a dynamic …

This paper studies insurance demand for individuals with limited financial literacy. We propose uncertainty about … demand. Sufficiently prudent individuals raise insurance demand upon an increase in contract complexity, while the effect is …

-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that … the demand for life insurance reacted strongly to this change. With regard to bequest motives, we analyze the demand for … viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations which …