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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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worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …
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the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. …
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This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex … ante moral hazard) and claim (ex post moral hazard) choices and Dutch longitudinal micro data. We use the theory to …
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We offer a theory of how the combination of budget constraints and insurance drives up prices. A natural context for … our theory is the health care market, where drug prices can be very high. Our model predicts that monopoly prices for …
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standard approach subsequent to becoming regulated, i.e., the presence of regulation may induce a bank to decrease the quality …
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We exploit the introduction of free banking laws in US states during the 1837-1863 period to examine the impact of removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic stability in this period, we are able to isolate the...
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We formally link insurance markets with product markets and identify a demand effect of insurance: if risk …-averse consumers can buy insurance against possible product failure, there will be some additional consumers that buy the product … have a higher willingness to pay if they can also buy insurance. But a higher price causes those consumers to leave the …
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