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the seemingly failure of the private insurance market to provide coverage for terrorism losses after the attack on … government provision of terrorism insurance. The paper argues that mostly unfettered insurance and capital markets are capable of …
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This paper investigates the rationale for government intervention in the market for terrorism insurance, focusing on … rational terrorists. Government subsidies for terror insurance can discourage self-protection and limit the inefficiencies …
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Care Act (ACA)'s Health Insurance Marketplaces. The RC program, which was defunded ahead of coverage year 2016, and ended … defunding, had greater premium increases in 2017, after the program ended. Insurance markets in which more insurers made RC …
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Massachusetts that the demand for auto insurance is highly price elastic. This implies that regulation induced price rollbacks (such …This paper examines various explanations for the increase in the degree of regulation of the auto industry in the last … increase in regulation in two ways: a) As an attempt to lower rates to deal with the problem of the uninsured motorist. b) More …
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This paper analyzes the impact of rate regulation on the structure of insurance markets for private passenger … automobile insurance. The paper argues that states' restrictions on automobile insurers' rates of return will distort the … those states which impose the most stringent regulation. The analysis suggests that increased regulatory stringency lowers …
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This paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no … 1970-1998, a period in which many states adopted compulsory insurance regulations and/or no-fault laws. Using an … instrumental variables approach, we find evidence that automobile insurance has moral hazard costs, leading to an increase in …
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(namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign …
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Natural catastrophes often have catastrophic risks on insurance companies as well as on the insured. Using a very large … dataset on homeowners%u2019 insurance coverage by state, by firm, and by year for the 1984 to 2004 period, this paper … term %u201Cblockbuster catastrophes.%u201D Insurers adapt to these catastrophic risks by raising insurance rates, leading …
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This paper examines the role that insurance has played in dealing with terrorism before and after September 11, 2001 …, by focusing on the distinctive challenges associated with terrorism as a catastrophic risk. The Terrorism Risk Insurance … Act of 2002 (TRIA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in November 2002, establishing a national terrorism insurance program …
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for the development of public-private partnerships, as recognized in November 2002 when the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act … of 2002 (TRIA) was passed. This paper shows, however, that the temporary insurance system established by TRIA is neither … current level of demand for insurance coverage has remained low and we discuss some factors that may contribute to it. After …
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