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Kenneth Arrow and Karl Borch published several important articles in the early 1960s that can be viewed as the beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review...
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the output and the public signal is private information to the agent but is an ambiguous random variable to the principal …
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expected claims, compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby reduce asymmetric information. An efficient risk … asymmetric information. …
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increased the credibility of information disclosed. Third, we show a 5.8 percent increase in asking price, indicating a … information and market outcomes …
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This paper tests the predictions of adverse selection models using data from the automobile insurance market. I find that, in contrast to what recent research has suggested, the evidence is consistent with the presence of informational asymmetries in this market: new customers choosing higher...
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Kenneth Arrow and Karl Borch published several important articles in the early 1960s that can be viewed as the beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review...
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We analyze the incentives for information disclosure in financial markets. We show that borrowers may have incentives … to voluntarily withhold information and that doing so is most attractive for claims that are inherently hard to value … incentives for information disclosure and have ambiguous ex-ante effects. …
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I study a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which information on capital quality is asymmetric and the … degree of information asymmetry varies endogenously with the state of the economy, amplifying the shocks. Firms hold capital … information on which units of their capital have depreciated, but can acquire private information on their own capital at a cost …
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information, equilibria are efficient, and we determine the degrees of specialization under which the specialized insurers are …
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