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This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
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and deters parties from settling disputes out of court. In contrast, the law is certain ex post: litigation fosters the … of a legal system (kept under control by litigation) and its litigation rate (sustained by uncertainty). We describe such … equilibrium rates in a model of tort litigation, study how they are affected by different policies, and compare the costs and …
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worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …
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We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...
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insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates …
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contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare. Integrating the principal-agent and …
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We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverse selection and study a generalized Rothschild and … accident occurs. We investigate the nature of dynamic insurance contracts by considering both conditional and unconditional … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamic contract has insurance companies offering contracts where the terms of the …
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We study an insurance model characterized by a continuum of risk types, private information and a competitive supply …
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The collection of information necessary for decision-making is often delegated to agents (e.g. bureaucrats, advisors, lawyers). If both the pros and cons of a decision have to be examined, it is better to use competing agents instead of a single agent. The reason is that two conflicting pieces...
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Science is a winner-take-all profession in which only few contributions get excessive attention and the large majority of papers remains receives scant or no attention. This so-called ‘waste’ together with all the competitive strategies of scientists seeking attention is part and parcel of...
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