Our study analyses the extent of integration of the EU market for life and non-life insurance. The main integration … even less advanced for life than for non-life insurance and that mergers and acquisitions are the dominant strategy to … access a foreign market. Besides summarising the liberalisation history of the European insurance sector and discussing …

purchase price can be presented as the increase in the willingness to pay for insurance or the willingness to pay for consumer … credit. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade-off between the propensity to search for beneficial insurance or … consumer credit, and marginal savings on insurance policy or consumer credit. Under price dispersion the indirect utility …

This paper provides empirical evidence of advantageous selection in insurance markets. By using a novel insurance … inability to distinguish moral hazard from selection. In the US market for area yield crop insurance, payouts are based on … average county yields. Moreover, area yield insurance is only offered in counties where no farmer is large enough to affect …

agricultural insurance program on household level production, borrowing, and saving. The empirical strategy includes both … difference-in-difference and triple difference estimations. I find that, first, introducing insurance increases the production … area of insured crops by around 20% and decreases production diversification; second, provision of insurance raises the …

In today’s insurance market there is a void that is any one person can have several insurance policies, this entails … different providers, different payment schemes etc. There is an opportunity for an insurance company to unite all policies and … create a universal insurance (UI) policy, an all in one so to speak. There is an argument that such an policy would be very …

The goal of this essay is to show an insurance market equilibrium defined by an insurance product price and a …

It has been said that insurance is the last of the financial services to accept radical change (Denney [1995 … weather volatility and catastrophic risks are difficult to diversify using traditional insurance practices. To provide a map … risks. There are two basic and distinct approaches: statistical and economic. The former is typical of the insurance …

and to partially answer to the basic questions of insurance. The question is “To insure or not”. The goal of this paper is … to reveal pure mathematical aspects of insurance processes and to analyze these aspects by pure mathematical methods …

In developed countries, insurance is a part of education, tradition and even of life, while in Romania, now, we can … and legal entities, requires the strict necessity to increase the business of insurance. Share phenomena or events may …

This is a theoretical paper that models a mandatory automobile insurance market using a partial equilibrium concept … where automobile insurance is one good and a composite good represents all others. Price controls, heterogeneous service …