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credit. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade-off between the propensity to search for beneficial insurance or … consumer credit, and marginal savings on insurance policy or consumer credit. Under price dispersion the indirect utility … insurance or the complete consumer credit. The comparative static analysis of the saddle point of the utility function discovers …
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credit. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade-off between the propensity to search for beneficial insurance or … consumer credit, and marginal savings on insurance policy or consumer credit. Under price dispersion the indirect utility … insurance or the complete consumer credit. The comparative static analysis of the saddle point of the utility function discovers …
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presented as the increase in the willingness to pay for insurance. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade …-off between the propensity to search for proficient insurance and marginal savings on insurance policy. Under price dispersion the … indirect utility function takes the form of cubic parabola, where the saddle point represents the comprehensive insurance. The …
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crisis, the role of the insurance companies is undeniable. This because enable households and businesses to manage their … risks effectively, ensuring the recovery and even reunification their patrimony. The competitiveness of the insurance sector … needs and the profitability of the insurance companies. This is because the consumer has changed in recent years, he became …
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Given the possibility to modify the probability of a loss, will a profit-maximizing insurer engage in loss prevention or is it in his interest to increase the loss probability? This paper investigates this question. First, we calculate the expected profit maximizing loss probability within an...
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Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry …
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. Should he exert more effort when he becomes more risk-averse? For instance, should we expect more risk-averse drivers to … presented in Jewitt (1989). We first extend the standard models of self-insurance and self-protection, and show that the …
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, creating endogenous risk-aversion differences across rich and poor. A closed-form solution for the model with insurable labor …-income risk serves as calibration guide for numerical simulations with uninsurable labor-income risk. …
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An estimated 2.6 billion people rely on traditional biomass for home cooking and heating, so improving the efficiency of household cookstoves could provide significant environmental, social and economic benefits. Some researchers have estimated that potential greenhouse gas emission reductions...
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