En Presence de Selection Adverse les Assures Ne Sont Pas Incites a Reveler les Vrais Risques Qu'ils Representent et Il Est Couteux Pour les Assureurs D'observer Ces Risques. Dans Ce Texte, Nous Presentons Deux Strategies Dans Lesquelles L'assureur Utilise L'information Associee a L'experience...

Although Insurers Face Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard When They Set Insurance Contracts, These Two Types of Asymmetrical Information Have Been Given Separate Treatments Sofar in the Economic Literature. This Paper Is a First Attempt to Integrate Both Problems Into a Single Model. We Show How...

In an Important Study Published in 1982, Newhouse, Williams, Bennett and Schwartz (Nwbs Hereafter) Analysed the Geographical Distribution of Physicians Using Us Data and Emphasized That the Physician's Ability to Create Demand Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient to Yield a Prediction of...

Some Current Insurance Markets Are Troubled by the Presence of Systematic Risk Or by the Inability of the Parties to Specify the Distribution for Aggregate Loss. Such Circumstances Partly Characterise the Topical "Liability Insurance Crisis". We Compare the Performance of Alternative Vehicles...

In 1972, Dreze and Modigliani Generalized the Line of Research Initiated by Leland [5] and Sandmo [8] on the Effects of Income Risk on Consumption. They Gave Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Consumption to Decrease Under Income Risk. However, They Did Not Cover Extensively the Case of...

This Article Investigates the Practice of Experience Rating by Insurance Companies in the Presence of Symmetric Information Between the Insured and the Insurer. Experience Rating Is Treated As the Acquisition of Information by Both Parties to the Insurance Contract. When the Insured Buys...

In This Paper, We Present a Critical Review of the Main Characteristics of the Automobile Insurance Regime in Quebec, Emphasizing Both the Compensation and the Pricing of Insurance. Moreover, We Present a Recommendation in Order to Improve the Classification of Risks and to Increase Incentives...

L'objectif de Notre Recherche Etait D'isoler L'effet de L'accessibilite Geographique aux Ressources Medicales Sur la Demande de Revascularisation du Myocarde. Nous Avons Utilise des Donnees du Quebec. Nos Resultats Indiquent des Relations Significatives Entre les Variables Accessibilite,...