China's Urban and Rural Residents' Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) system recently was formed to integrate two prior-existing government health insurance programs for low income citizens: the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (for rural residents) and the Urban Residents' Basic Medical Insurance...

This research uses an indirect methodology to examine the effects of health insurance mergers and acquisitions by analyzing the impact of insurers' scale of operations and group affiliation status on benefits, costs, and efficiency from the perspective of various stakeholders. The analysis can...

This paper empirically tests if prospect theory's loss-aversion and reference point dependence can explain individuals' real-world insurance take-up behavior. This paper uses American Life Panel data and finds empirical evidence consistent with prospect theory: loss-averse individuals have a low...

The extent of regulation of insurance companies has grown significantly in recent decades. The ‘freedom with publicity’ regime which defined the regulatory approach from 1870 to 1970 appeared to work and ran with the grain of the market. Arguments that are given today for prudential...

We analyze the value of insurance when individuals have access to credit markets. Loans allow consumers to smooth financial shocks over time, decreasing the value of consumption smoothing from insurance. We derive formulas for the value of insurance that can be taken to data, and show how that...

This work focuses on forecasting emerging technology trends in the insurance industry with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). In comparison to similar industries, the digital transformation of the insurance industry is progressing slowly. Traditional insurance organizations are struggling...

The main goal of this paper is to provide the description, current offer and factors behind the premia differences of the travel insurance products offered in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the premia pricing, risks covered, claim limits, product distribution and terms and conditions in...

Calabresi's theory of tort liability (1961) as a risk distribution mechanism established insurance as an objective of tort liability. Calabresi's risk-spreading concept of tort has provided the impetus for much of the subsequent development of tort liability doctrine, including risk-utility...

We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice, consumers can determine the precision of a privately observed signal that is informative about their accident risk. The equilibrium effort is, depending on parameter values, either...