Viele Akteure sind an den aktuellen politischen Diskussionen (FIDLEG, Revision VVG) beteiligt, wie Konsumenten im Versicherungsbereich wirksam und effizient geschützt werden können. Die Anspruchsgruppe, die im Zentrum der Diskussionen steht, wurde bisher jedoch wenig untersucht: Wie stehen...

Credit related insurance and other debt protection are products sold in conjunction with credit that extinguish a consumer's debt or suspends its periodic payments if events like death, disability, or involuntary unemployment occur. High penetration rates observed in the 1950s and 1960s raised...

Insurance guarantee schemes aim to protect policyholders from the costs of insurer insolvencies. However, guarantee schemes can also reduce insurers' incentives to conduct appropriate risk management. We investigate stock insurers' risk-shifting behavior for insurance guarantee schemes under the...

Persistently high profits on “insurance” for small value losses sold as an add-on to other products or services (such as extended warranties sold with consumer electronics, loss damage waivers sold with a car rental, and credit life insurance sold with a loan) pose a twofold challenge to the...