correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage …. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively correlated risks. It can be shown that insurance contributes to a reduction of … insurance. Analyzing deviations from trend in aggregate insurance payments, one finds the following for the United States and …

The wealth dynamics of insurance companies strongly depends on the success of their investment strategies, but also on … investment strategy that does not take liquidity shocks into account, exposes insurance companies to the risk of bankruptcy. This … paper analyzes the behavior of insurance companies in an evolutionary framework. We show that an insurance company that …

) shows that this constraint might well bind: insured could get higher expected utility if insurance contracts would allow … optimal insurance contract he derives underestimates the relevance of the non-negativity constraint on indemnities. This paper …

Under certain conditions the optimal insurance policy will offer full coverage above a deductible, as Arrow and others … have shown long time ago. Interestingly, the same design of insurance policies applies in case of a single loss and ex …-ante moral hazard. However, many insurance policies provide coverage against a variety of losses and the possibilities for the …

As early as the 1970s, European Union (EU) member countries implemented rulesto coordinate insurance markets and …

-based industries such as finance, insurance and gambling. We sketch an alternative approach to modeling risky choice that focuses on …

payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm …

management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it …

India's insurance sector has been growing dynamically in the last couple of years. Despite the suite of reforms that … have been implemented to stoke the sector's growth, it still has a long way to go, as its share in the global insurance … market remains abysmally low. In this paper, we analyse the Indian insurance sector and trace its evolution and growth. We …