This article deals with the impact of intermediaries on insurance market transparancy and performance. In a market exhibiting product diferentiation and coexistence of of perfectly and imperfectly informed consumers, competition among insurers leads to non-existence of a pure-strategy market...

This paper looks at markets characterized by the fact that the demand side is insured. In these markets a consumer purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured's...

Der Beitrag enthält eine anreiztheoretische Analyse der Versicherungssysteme, die zur Entschädigung von Kosten und Verlusten aus Tierseuchenausbrüchen in den EU-Mitgliedsländern eingerichtet sind. Es wird gezeigt, dass Kompensationszahlungen zur Erzielung effizienter...