In the literature on optimal indemnity schedules, indemnities are usually restricted to be non-negative. Gollier (1987) shows that this constraint might well bind: insured could get higher expected utility if insurance contracts would allow payments from the insured to the insurer at some...

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...

The standard solution to adverse selection is the separating equilibrium introduced by Rothschild and Stiglitz. Usually, the Rothschild-Stiglitz argument is developed in a model that allows for two states of the world only. In this paper adverse selection is dis-cussed for continuous loss...

Regelmäßig erhält das Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Anfragen aus dem Ausland nach einer statistischen Beschreibung des deutschen Mittelstandes. Aus diesem Grunde wurde 1998 erstmals eine statistische Beschreibung des Mittelstandes in englischer Sprache verfasst, die einen Überblick...