and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …

”, I evaluate the money’s worth of life annuities and discuss the implications of the government entering the insurance …

This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read …, which is on oligopolistic models in the insurance market, are paving the way for chapter 4, which contains an article on the … role of patience in an insurance market. This is because chapter 4’s model includes moral hazard and adds to the literature …

allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …

that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …