This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

Private insurance markets provide insufficient coverage for risks coming from natural disasters. We argue that in such … resources in risk selection (a typical feature of the private provision of insurance). …

The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in …

The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that … variables . The hypothesis is that the state of the “natural†environment at first affects negatively health; later on its … improvement, due to sanitation and health infrastructures, possible because of income growth, leads to a better health, followed …

German Socio-Economic Panel shows that the level of income also affects a person's health and life expectancy. People's self …-assessment of their health and health-related quality of life follow a distribution pattern which can be described as gradient: the … lower the income, the more frequent the impairments to subjective health. Life expectancy statistics also reflect income …

For some time researchers have known that the relationship between health and the residential mobility of the elderly … age groups. However, the onset of poor health differs considerably by individual, particularly for the "young-old". Multi … in the relationship between one of the two mid-life health measures and residential mobility, and the results for both …