response could be taken, as for example mitigation and insurance. This doctoral thesis focuses on the relation between the … insurance and the mitigation approach. It studies the impact of insurance instruments on mitigation of climate change. The main …

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 …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

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 …

This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision …, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics, background risk, game theory, rationalizability, iterated strict dominance multi …-stage games, sequential equilibrium, trembling-hand perfection, stability, signaling games, theory of auctions, global games …

homestead wealth on use of nets purchased from the retail sector is well documented, however, the competing influence of mother … were collected at homestead, mother and child (aged < 5 years) levels. An assets-based wealth index was developed using … before the interview; 58% (327) of the nets used were purchased from the retail sector. Homestead wealth (adjusted OR = 10 …

This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model … is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the … offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid …