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This paper analyzes the choice of deductible in insurance contracts that insure against a risk that, as is common … risk-bearing costs, the optimal contract is one that uses an aggregate deductible that applies to the aggregate losses … disadvantages that aggregate deductibles have. Aggregate deductibles are shown to produce higher expected verification costs and …
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The population property insurance presents high interest; the insurance domain being very complex. The classes of … population property insurance cover the equipment insurance, car insurance and securing buildings and their contents. Decisions … review the decision-making conditions under uncertainty for the population’s assets. Modeling the decision of insurance is an …
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This paper looks at social insurance of short term absence from work. The chief concern is with efficiency properties …
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The logic of Arrow’s theorem of the deductible, i.e. that it is optimal to focus insurance coverage on the states with … deductible positively related to the elasticity of medical expenditures with respect to the insurance rate. In a model with a … insurance below the deductible arises if regular health care expenditures in a situation of standard health have a negative …
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This paper examines the predictive power of weather for electricity prices in day ahead markets in real time. We find that next-day weather forecasts improve the forecast accuracy of Scandinavian day-ahead electricity prices substantially in terms of point forecasts, suggesting that weather...
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automobile insurance coverage and ex post risk. It combines insurance company information with the policyholders’ private … information on risky traffic behavior (traffic violations) that is not accessible to the insurance company. It is demonstrated … insurance market. A positive significant correlation for three out of ten groups of new policyholders is found, consistent with …
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poor policy choices. More financial aid flows may not be a panacea for poor economic growth and its insurance …
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contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare. Integrating the principal-agent and …
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In principal-agent settings with moral hazard, the fact that agents are altruistic vis-a-vis third parties (e.g. their family) modifies incentive costs. We derive sufficient conditions for the principal to benefit from altruism. They bear on how altruism affects the agent's marginal rate of...
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