This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …

In a two-stage model insurance companies first decide upon risk classification and then compete in prices. I show that … insurance market individual application of classification schemes induces welfare losses due to cream skimming. Classification …

security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance …

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 begins with the role of utility, risk, and risk aversion in the … insurance literature and then summarizes work on the demand for insurance, insurance and resource allocation, moral hazard, and …

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 begins with the role of utility, risk, and risk aversion in the … insurance literature and summarizes work on the demand for insurance, insurance and resource allocation, moral hazard, and …

Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …

variables directly related to the insurance product (e.g., a regulatory restriction of insurance acquisition costs) as well as … importance of insurance distribution in banks. Significant risk factors (statistically significant) which determine gross … cooperation between banks and insurers as well as the specificity of insurance products distribution (also local) in the …

little research has investigated the perceptions and attitudes expressed by insurance policyholders. Therefore, to bridge … insurance policyholders in Gauteng. This will inevitably assist insurers to retain more clients as they will have a better … understanding of what influences the risk perception of their insurance policyholders. Exogenous factors relate to external factors …

minimum level of flood insurance penetration, and the resulting increment in total premiums required to achieve this objective … insurance protection. Third, the paper proposes a stylised approach to quantify economic losses associated with uninsured flood … events at different levels of insurance penetration, allowing to take into account that insurance protection could be partly …

solvency of the main euro area insurance sectors. We model the balance sheet of an insurance company encompassing both life and … non-life business and we calibrate it using country level data to make it representative of the major euro area insurance …