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An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance
Cawley, John - 2010
This paper tests restrictions implied by the canonical theory of insurance under asymmetric information using ideal … life insurance. We report several findings which are hard to reconcile with the canonical theory. First, we find a striking …-linear pricing than predicted by theory: the theory predicts that prices rise with quantity, but we find that they fall. Third, we …
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Characterization, Existence, and Pareto Optimality in Insurance Markets with Asymmetric Information with Endogenous and Asymmetric Disclosures : Revisiting Rothschild-Stiglitz
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2018
We study the Rothschild-Stiglitz model of competitive insurance markets with endogenous information disclosure by both firms and consumers. We show that an equilibrium always exists, (even without the single crossing property), and characterize the unique equilibrium allocation. With two types...
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A Welfare Analysis of Competitive Insurance Markets with Vertical Differentiation and Adverse Selection
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2023
A feature of many insurance markets is that they combine vertical differentiation (all consumers prefer high to low-coverage policies) and adverse selection (high cost customers prefer high-coverage plans). Building on Novshek and Sonnenschein (1978) and Azevedo and Gottlieb (2017), this paper...
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A Note on Taxation as Social Insurance for Uncertain Labor Income
Kaplow, Louis - 2014
Various authors, notably Eaton and Rosen (1980a) and Varian (1980), have proposed that income taxation may be justified to some extent on the ground that it serves as social insurance against uncertainties in labor income. They assume that private insurance is unavailable. primarily because of...
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Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
A significant source of risk arises from uncertainty concerning future government policy. Government action - - tax reform, deregulation, judicial decisions, budgetary shifts - - produces gains and losses for those who invested under preexisting rules. The effects of government relief - -...
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Capital Accumulation and Uncertain Lifetimes with Adverse Selection
Abel, Andrew B. - 2010
This paper examines the implications of adverse selection in the private annuity market for the pricing of private annuities and the consequent effects on constrption and bequest behavior. With privately known heterogeneous mortality probabilities, adverse selection causes the rate of return on...
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Home Equity Insurance
Shiller, Robert J. - 2010
some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such …
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Multidimensional Private Information, Market Structure and Insurance Markets
Fang, Hanming - 2016
A large empirical literature found that the correlation between insurance purchase and ex post realization of risk is often statistically insignificant or negative. This is inconsistent with the predictions from the classic models of insurance a la Akerlof (1970), Pauly (1974) and Rothschild and...
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Imperfect Competition in Selection Markets
Mahoney, Neale - 2016
Standard policies to correct market power and selection can be misguided when these two forces co-exist. Using a calibrated model of employer-sponsored health insurance, we show that the risk adjustment commonly used by employers to offset adverse selection often reduces the amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006017
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Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment
Golosov, Mikhail - 2014
We study the optimal provision of insurance against unobservable idiosyncratic shocks in a setting in which a benevolent government cannot commit. A continuum of agents and the government play an infinitely repeated game. Actions of the government are constrained only by the threat of reverting...
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