This paper examines premium determination of voluntary automobile insurance policies and risk classification under Taiwan’s heavily regulated rating system. On the basis of a unique data set, we investigate the appropriateness of the official one-size-fits-all rating formula for insurers by...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the practical importance of the finding of Mayers and Smith, that underinvestment is a problem when debt exposed to bankruptcy is part of the financial structure. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines critically the assumptions underlying the...

Although risk aversion has been used in economic models for over 275 years, the past few decades have shown how higher order risk attitudes are also quite important. A behavioral approach to defining such risk attitudes was developed by Eeckhoudt and Schlesinger (2006), based upon simple lottery...