Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

We consider a competitive insurance market with adverse selection. Unlike the standard models, we assume that … limited liability afforded via bankruptcy laws. Government assistance is calculated ex post of any insurance benefits. This … alters the individuals' demand for insurance coverage. In turn, this affects equilibria in various insurance models of …

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 …

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. …

fair perfect insurance. In the SE all agents are savers throughout their lives. The informational asymmetry precludes the … rather small, whilst those of PE versus no annuities at all (NAE) are rather large. An imperfect insurance is better than no … insurance at all, both at the microeconomic and at the macroeconomic level. -- annuity markets ; adverse selection ; endogenous …

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … are considered. The insurance contract specifies two types of copayments: an ad valorem coinsurance rate and a specific …

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

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 …