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We experimentally analyze consoumers' reaction to insurance default risk. Consistent with eralier studies, we find that … insurance with default risk is extremely unattractive to most individuals. A considerable fraction of consumers completely … refuse to accept any default risk; others ask for large reductions in insurance premiums. These findings are robust against …
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The wealth dynamics of insurance companies strongly depends on the success of their investment strategies, but also on … investment strategy that does not take liquidity shocks into account, exposes insurance companies to the risk of bankruptcy. This … paper analyzes the behavior of insurance companies in an evolutionary framework. We show that an insurance company that …
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In this article we identify risk and return profiles of two types of investment guaranteesin unit-linked life insurance … havingaverage rate of return and standard deviation over the contract term with a ConstantProportion Portfolio Insurance managed …
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Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented,but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, andinnovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussedwith...
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An evolutionary perspective on economic behavior has to account for the influences that thehuman genetic endowment has on the choices the agents make. Likely to have been fixed intimes of fierce selection pressure, this endowment is presumably adapted to the livingconditions of early humans. If...
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A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the lossaversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolutesubjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviationrepresents a loss than when the...
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Market growth is driven by product innovation. Beyond functional satiationthe marginal utility of product performance and variety decreases. We argue that socialcomparisons underlying innovation diffusion results in consumer motivations for upwardassimilation toward the behavior of better...
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Least-Unmatched Price Auctions have become a popular format of TV and radio shows. Increasingly,they are also applied in internet trading. In these auctions the lowest single (unique)bid wins. We analyze the game-theoretic solution of least unmatched price auctions when prize,bidding cost and...
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can oer cost insurance while maintaining ex-ibility. In particular, we provide evidence from a survey among 214German … university students that exibility, cost insurance and theso-called taximeter eect are the main drivers behind cost cap … tarichoice. Furthermore, we show that the insurance and taximeter eectsare distinct if evaluated within a atrate or cost cap tari …
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This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditurebudget share distributions —defined as the share of household total expenditure spentfor purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004. We find...
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