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 …

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 …

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 document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies … charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (which includes third … that consumers are too confused or too poorly informed to arbitrage and that sellers of car insurance do not implement the …

that considers both diagnostic uncertainty of sellers and the effects of insurance coverage of consumers in a unified … uncertainty decreases the rate of efficient service provision and leads to less trade. In theory, insurance also decreases the … net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …

The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community …

insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates …

with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …