In this paper we analyze insurance demand when the utility function depends both upon final wealth and the level of losses or gains relative to a reference point. Besides some comparative statics results, we discuss the links with first-order risk aversion, with the Omega measure, and with a...

In This Paper, We Generalize Hoy and Robson (1981) Analysis and We Provide a Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Insurance Not to Be Giffen. the Condition Gives a Bound for the Variation of the Absolute Risk Avesion Which Pemits the Wealth Effect to Be Always Dominated by the Subsitution Effect.

When adult children are financially responsible for their parents, they can take considerable interest in the amount of their parents’ long-term care (LTC) insurance. In this paper, we look at the optimal levels of LTC insurance and of informal care, and at the link between these two decisions...