Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage …

We examine insurance markets with two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don.t. In … positive correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, as in the standard economic models of adverse … selection, but there also exist separating equilibria that predict a negative correlation between the amount of insurance …

in self-protection implies that, in equilibrium, individuals underinvest in self-protection. Limiting insurance coverage … through deductibles or selling at-fault insurance can partially internalize this externality and thereby improve individual …

equity premium and longevity insurance in her retirement portfolio. Even without bequests, she will not fully annuitize …

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 …

with banking and insurance sectors, we show that credit risk transfer can be beneficial when banks face uniform demand for …

Mutual insurance companies and stock insurance companies are different forms of organized risk sharing: policyholders … necessary for a stock insurer to offer insurance at a fair premium, but not for a mutual. In the presence of an ownermanager …

We analyse a 2-period competitive insurance market which is characterized by the simultaneous presence of standard … which patient consumers use high effort and buy a profit-making insurance contract with high coverage, whereas impatient …