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Insurance program stemming from changes in participation rates as well as the weighting of data to reflect longer‐run weather …
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In this paper we consider the effects of legal-expenses insurance on settlement. Using a one-shot asymmetric …-the-event insured, after-the-event insured or self-funded. We investigate the effects of insurance on settlement probabilities …" element of the insurance. Our results exhibit that insurance increases the plaintiff's expectation on settlement amount but …
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These comments are a reaction to a panel discussion on Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance. They point out that …
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A dynamic model of self insurance and market insurance demand against uncertain natural hazards is developed where …
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Abstract This paper analyzes the choice of deductible in insurance contracts that insure against a risk that, as is …
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Stiglitz (1977) established three well-known features of monopoly insurance markets subject to adverse selection: (i …
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Should government rebuild New Orleans? Edward Glaeser asks whether the residents would be better off with $200,000 in their pockets than to have $200 billion spent on infrastructure: shouldn't we be insuring the people, not the place? New Orleans has been declining and its people mired in...
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. This suggests that drug coverage may be more susceptible to adverse selection than medical insurance.  …
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state policies, this paper models the effect of more stringent eligibility criteria for Medicaid on the insurance status and … thresholds of California. We do not find any evidence of a "crowding out" effect of public insurance on private coverage among …
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insurance industry. These are important impacts of the liberalization and opening of the German insurance market. With the aid …
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