Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive … without intermediation. A controversial matter in the discussion concerning insurance intermediation is the issue of … by insurance companies. The rationale for the latter is the fact that a fee paid by uninformed consumers limits the …

How should intermediaries influence the insurance demand decision? The answer must refer to the interdependence of … essential for the insurance demand decision. Undoubtedly, consumers lack information about certain variables, and therefore … and to provide the correct information. Since the information in the insurance market is asymmetrically distributed, an …

insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …