We consider an oligopoly of firms that compete on price. Firms produce a non-stochastic output, insurance coverage … choice on the market. We discuss the model with regard to insurance industry specificity and regulation. …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the existence of mutual firms on the behavior of insurance companies … and more precisely to study in which situations an insurance company can enter a market controlled by mutual arrangements …. Our approach differs from the existing literature as we integrate the investment choices of the insurance company and the …

In the U.S., flood insurance is provided essentially through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a public …. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the largest flood insurance sample ever studied by focusing on the state of … Florida, which accounts for 40 percent of the entire NFIP portfolio. We study the demand for flood insurance with a database …

rural cooperative insurance system. During this period, the government health policy has turned healthcare providers all … insurance system. From CHNS data source, we constitute two samples: 89-93 and 04-06 with respectively 2117 and 2594 rural … evolution of price, income, distance, insurance, age, and regional inequality. Using Mixed Multinomial Logit (MMNL) estimations …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the need for capital and default regulation in insurance. Proponents of …

This paper aims at presenting the insurance cost-of-capital com- putation issue. It highlights two methodologies … premium adopted by supervisory authorities. These strategies are based either on market return of insurance companies or on … the modelling of insurance business profit and loss. We estimate a cost-of-capital rate corre- sponding to these basic …

. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and … design such projects in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium, is …

This paper analyzes the efficient design of insurance schemes in the presence of aggregate shocks and moral hazard. The … identical but are subject to idiosyncratic shocks. Without moral hazard, optimality requires (1) full insurance against … conflicts with the full insurance of idiosyncratic shocks. In particular, how is the sharing of macro-economic risks across …

model to highlight how liquidity and insurance constraints respond differently to the time profile of expected cash …