insurance industry. When the degree of competition increases, fraud increases but the response of the industry in terms of …

regulations, alter financial institutions’ trading behavior. The insurance industry provides a natural laboratory to explore these …

This Paper tests the presence of multiple independent submarkets in the Italian motor insurance industry. Independence …

This paper assesses the possible impact of a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) on Egypt and Jordan and identifies …

democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate the …

yielding equilibria exhibiting various degrees of inefficiencies and fraud. The variety of results has fostered the impression …

macroeconomic and political uncertainty. Demand for macroeconomic shock insurance was high; 36.7 percent of microentrepreneurs in … the treatment group purchased insurance. However, purchasing insurance does not change the likelihood that a business … microenterprises. However, insurance may still be of value to them to help cope with shocks when they do occur, but we are unable to …

This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …