Should we exempt the services of insurance companies from VAT? Addressing this issue, the paper distinguishes between … insurance against a general loss of resources and a loss of a specific commodity (property insurance). There is a case for … exempting the former kind of insurance, but not the latter. Finally, comparing insurance through a producer warranty with …

This paper characterizes the optimal information structure in competitive insurance markets with adverse selection. A … regulator assigns ratings to individuals according to their risk characteristics, insurers offer fixed insurance contracts to … system. We examine implications for government regulations of insurance markets …

We extend the seminal Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) model on competitive insurance markets with asymmetric information …

A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically … this paper we develop a general framework to study insurance market equilibrium and evaluate policy interventions in the … former. We implement the model empirically using proprietary data on insurance choices, utilization, and consumer information …

that hardly explains the many features of an insurance contract. We extend this setup to include the situation that the … show how the law of insurance contracts should allow insurers to incentivize policyholders to exert an adequate level of …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … less severe than suggested by the studies from Western countries and the evidence on formal insurance from developing …

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates 'standard …

the European rules regarding the solvency capital requirements for insurance companies should adapt to the state of the …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …