accumulative losses for insurers. As obvious risk management tools such as (re)insurance or hedging are less suited to manage an … cost experience is found in German private health insurance so that the idea is not novel in general, but it is in the …

Universität Hamburg. Professor Dr. Andreas Richter ist Vorstand des Instituts für Risikomanagement und Versicherung der LMU …

purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most … lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured's actual expenses, i.e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchasing certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive … without intermediation. A controversial matter in the discussion concerning insurance intermediation is the issue of … by insurance companies. The rationale for the latter is the fact that a fee paid by uninformed consumers limits the …

purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most … lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured's actual expenses, i. e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchased certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …