Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high risk. We show how to separately identify risk … preferences and risk types using only choices from menus of insurance plans. Our revealed preference approach does not rely on … in insurance plans, offered separately to random cross-sections or offered as part of the same menu to one cross …

Using a model with constant relative risk-aversion preferences, endogenous labor supply and partial insurance against … cost associated with missing insurance markets. On the other hand, greater wage dispersion presents opportunities to raise …

Can measured risk attitudes and associated structural models predict insurance demand? In an experiment (n = 1,730), we … parameterize seventeen common structural models (e.g., expected utility, cumulative prospect theory). Subjects also make twelve … insurance choices over different loss probabilities and prices. The insurance choices show coherence and some correlation with …

distributed through the insurance and reinsurance systems. However, because insurance companies tend to share relatively small … amounts of their cat exposures and because insurance companies' capital is threatened by large event, these risks are now …

Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear … some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such … insurance company in effect serves as a retailer to homeowners of short positions in real estate futures markets or of put …