An important new dimension of the regulatory environment in banking and insurance is the explicit reliance on market discipline. Expectation: A transparent market will require less overt intervention by regulators (market participants themselves force appropriate behavior)...

Viele Akteure sind an den aktuellen politischen Diskussionen (FIDLEG, Revision VVG) beteiligt, wie Konsumenten im Versicherungsbereich wirksam und effizient geschützt werden können. Die Anspruchsgruppe, die im Zentrum der Diskussionen steht, wurde bisher jedoch wenig untersucht: Wie stehen...

This paper demonstrates the existence of adverse selection in the group insurance market with no individual choice. We provide evidence against the “conventional wisdom” that group insurance mitigates adverse selection because of the mixture of high risks and low risks. We show, however,...

This article examines the determinants of cyber insurance participation, the amount of coverage offered, and the performance of current cyber insurers. Our results support the competitive advantage hypothesis, are in line with the coordinated risk management hypothesis, but only partially...

Regulation of any market can either promote or impede its development, thus affecting social welfare. In this paper, we are concerned with the impact of regulation in microinsurance markets. We evaluate existing and potential regulatory mechanisms with regard to its underlying economic...