We compare the structure of the financial sectors of the EU27, Japan and the United States, looking at a set of 23 … classified as market-based (MBEU) and the third group is more bank-based (BBEU). We compare US, MBEU, BBEU, Eastern EU and Japan …, MBEU countries are closer to the (market-based) US, while BBEU countries more closely resemble Japan. Paradoxically …

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 …

objectives through the provision of (catastrophic) natural hazard insurance. This is the case of many OECD countries, notably … hazard insurance develop. This paper has a dual objective: 1) review the complex legal background that rules the provision of … insurance against natural catastrophes in the EU after these major reforms; 2) assess the implications of the reforms and offer …

) 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 …. -- Insurance ; Indemnity ; Deductible ; Co-Insurance …

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 …

form of an insurance contract to impose partial insurance of the low risks. This paper contributes to the discussion on … optimal insurance. It analyzes two basic forms of insurance contracts: A contract with a deductible and a contract imposing a … positive co-insurance rate. Since high risks can always self-reveal themselves as high risks and buy the optimal insurance …