This book details the research developments in insurance and its related fields. It starts with the history and foundations of insurance theory and moves on to review asymmetric information, risk management, insurance pricing and other advance topics.

I History -- 1 Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: The Past 25 Years -- II Insurance Theory Without Information Problems -- 2 Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm -- 3 Optimal Insurance Design: What can we do with and without Expected Utility? --...

From the introduction: Economic and financial research on insurance markets has undergone dramatic growth since its infancy in the early 1960s. Our main objective in compiling this volume was to achieve a wider dissemination of key papers in this literature. Their significance is highlighted in...

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: History -- Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: the Past 40 Years -- Part 2 : Risk and Insurance Theory Without Information Problems -- Higher-Order Risk Attitudes -- Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm -- The...

This paper proposes bonus-malus systems for fleets of vehicles, by using the individual characteristics of both the vehicles and the carriers. Bonus-malus coefficients are computed from the history of claims or from the history of safety offences of the carriers and the drivers...