and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the …

because agents can time-diversify their risk. Market insurance implies welfare gains of around .6% in terms of non …-durable consumption. Introducing labor income risk into the model does not necessarily increase the importance of market insurance if the …We analyze dynamic interactions between market insurance, the stock of insurable assets and liquid wealth accumulation …

drive the demand for risk reduction, and some to alter both. Our findings suggest that 30 percent of all insurance payments …We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk … life. For each risk, subjects can pay premiums in order to reduce the likelihood of total bankruptcy. Our results show a …

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy … trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … of breach is negligible. However, as for much B2C insurance marketing, face-to-face selling plays a crucial role in our …

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …

Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their … employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private … increased insurance coverage on workers' outcomes are thus ambiguous. This paper aims to separate worker and insurer responses …

We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk … Rating 2.0, using individual insurance histories for all NFIP policies. The reform increased exit and reduced entry, both in … the flood zone and its periphery. The reform had highly heterogeneous effects on insurance costs and triggered adjustments …

This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance …

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear …

households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … populated by a large number of long-lived, risk-averse households with homothetic preferences who can invest in risk …-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their …