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We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamiccontract has insurance companies offeringcontracts where the terms of the contract … on individualpast performance (like in car insurances). Weinvestigate whether allowing insurance companies to offer …
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This paper investigates the impact of insurance contract design on the behavior of filing fraudulent claims in an … experimental setup. We test how fraud behavior varies for insurance contracts with full coverage, a straight deductible or variable … extent of claim build-up compared to full coverage contracts. In contrast, bonus-malus contracts with variable insurance …
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We examine insurance markets with two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don.t. In … positive correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, as in the standard economic models of adverse … selection, but there also exist separating equilibria that predict a negative correlation between the amount of insurance …
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A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should … be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. We analyze this issue within a model with …
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Most insurance companies publish few data on the occurrence and detection of insurance fraud. This stands in contrast … uncertainty about fraud detection can be an effective strategy to deter ambiguity-averse agents from reporting false insurance …
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Most insurance companies publish few data on the occurrence and detection of insurance fraud. This stands in contrast … uncertainty about fraud detection can be an effective strategy to deter ambiguity-averse agents from reporting false insurance …
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marriage as well as for a precautionary attitude towards risk. - Consumption Insurance ; Marriage …
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schwerwiegenden Problemen. Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Beitrags wird zum einen erläutert, warum Versicherungsbetrug als ein …Fraudulent claims are a well-known phenomenon and a serious problem in some insurance markets. The purpose of this … paper is twofold. First of all, it explains why insurance fraud can be considered as a contractual problem. Consequently …
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This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch workers with peripheral nerve injuries. Randomized clinical trial data and individual medical records from injured workers are compared with administrative data of healthy...
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This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...
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