The sum insured of insured assets is one of the basic significant characteristics of insurance policy quality and is the ceiling amount of insurance benefit in the case of an insured loss. It is one of the parameters specified in the policy and affects the premium amount. The sum insured relates...

Asymmetry of information is generally solvable on the current Czech insurance market. This article presents a different view of the issue. There is a specific effect of the asymmetry of information on the insurance market. The phenomenon is the concealment of information in the insurance...

This article elaborates on how information is provided in the terms and conditions of various insurers and how it is related to one of potential demonstrations of information asymmetry. The aim of this article is to evaluate the level of knowledgeableness in the insurance conditions of the...

The paper is focused on selected indicators of the insurance market in the Czech and Slovak Republic. The indicators are used for the analysis of the insurance market during years 1993- 2010. The periods of time is chosen from 1993, because in this year the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic...

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...

We present an international trade model with multiproduct firms. Firms are heterogeneously endowed with two types of capabilities that jointly determine the trade-off within firms between managing a large portfolio of products and producing at low marginal cost. The model can explain many of the...

This paper reports data from a laboratory experiment on two-period moral hazard problems. The findings corroborate the contract-theoretic insight that even though the periods are technologically unrelated, due to incentive considerations principals can benefit from offering long-term contracts...

We study a continuous-time game of strategic experimentation in which the players try to assess the failure rate of some new equipment or technology. Breakdowns occur at the jump times of a Poisson process whose unknown intensity is either high or low. In marked contrast to existing models, we...

We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental three-player contests. We find that players in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending...

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...