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This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
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Under certain conditions the optimal insurance policy will offer full coverage above a deductible, as Arrow and others … have shown long time ago. Interestingly, the same design of insurance policies applies in case of a single loss and ex …-ante moral hazard. However, many insurance policies provide coverage against a variety of losses and the possibilities for the …
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other, but not to a larger degree than dictated by the social norm. We compare such informal family insurance with … actuarially fair formal insurance. We show that coerced family altruism reduces individual efforts in equilibrium. However … show that if family members are sufficiently altruistic to each other, then informal family insurance by way of coerced …
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Individual moral hazard engendered by health insurance and monopolistic production are both typical phenomena of drug … insurance against the risk of drug expenses. In contrast, the social welfare criterion suggests that individuals should purchase … more insurance coverage than they choose to do in the market equilibrium. …
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We analyse a 2-period competitive insurance market which is characterized by the simultaneous presence of standard … which patient consumers use high effort and buy a profit-making insurance contract with high coverage, whereas impatient …
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contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare.Integrating the principal-agent and …
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We analyze optimal hedging contracts and show that although hedging aims at sharing risk, it can lead to more risk-taking. News implying that a hedge is likely to be loss-making undermines the risk-prevention incentives of the protection seller. This incentive problem limits the capacity to...
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We analyze the effect of counterparty risk on insurance contracts using the case of credit risk transfer in banking. In …
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The paper studies insurance with moral hazard in a system of contingent-claims markets. Insurance buyers are modelled … corresponding to effort incentives induced by insurance buyers? net trades. When there are many agents to share the insurance buyer …?s risk, Cournot equilibrium outcomes are close to being second-best. In contrast, if insurance buyers are price takers …
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The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple - a bonding scheme would do - but that empirically the labor...
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