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We study imperfect competition between insurers in a multiple-risk environment. In the absence of asymmetric information, equilibria are efficient, and we determine the degrees of specialization under which the specialized insurers are able or unable to capture the surplus. We show in contrast...
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We analyze a Principal-Agent model of an insurer who faces an adverse selection problem. He is unable to observe if his client has a high risk or a low risk of having an accident. At the underwriting of the contract, the insurer requests the client to declare his risk. After that, the former can...
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We analyze markets where insurers are better informed about risk than consumers. We show that even competitive markets may result in insufficient information revelation and inefficient insurance coverage. This explains why certain risky consumers remain uninsured and why certain market segments...
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Cet article examine en détail les allocations d’assurance de second-rang dans une économie soumise à l’antisélection. Partant d’une extension naturelle du modèle classique, nous supposons une perception imparfaite du risque. Nous caractérisons les contraintes qui s’exercent sur la...
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This article deals with optimal insurance contracts in the framework of imprecise probabilities and adverse selection. Agents differ not only in the objective risk they face but also in the perception of risk. In monopoly, a range of configurations that VNM preferences preclude appears: a...
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Using a substitution property of worker’s types (productivity and time preference), we propose an explanation for both fixed-wages and wage differentials. Fixed-wages result in bunching at the optimum. Equally productive workers with different time preference accept different wages.
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questionnée. Mobilisant la théorie de l’attribution, cette recherche examine l’impact de la réputation de l’entreprise sur la … communication sociétale sur le capital-marque lorsqu’une enseigne pâtit d’une mauvaise réputation. En revanche, en cas de bonne … réputation, les consommateurs infèrent des motivations internes dans la prise de parole de l’enseigne, ce qui influence la …
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show that they need a sufficient mix of reputation and financial capital. We consider their choice to work for transparent … eases the updating of the employees'reputation, which is positive for those with a bad initial reputation and negative … for setting a business venture. Employees thus adopt strategies that depend on their initial reputation. We also show that …
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analyse the role and the development of trust and then, the relation between the degree of sophistication of Information and …
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