This paper characterizes the optimal insurance contract in an environment where an informed agent can misrepresent the …

that hardly explains the many features of an insurance contract. We extend this setup to include the situation that the … show how the law of insurance contracts should allow insurers to incentivize policyholders to exert an adequate level of …

High correlations between risks can increase required insurer capital and/orreduce the availability of insurance. For … such insurance lines, securitizationis rapidly emerging as an alternative form of risk transfer. The ultimatesuccess of … to facilitateand/or be facilitated by insurance contracts. We consider how insuredlosses might be decomposed into …