Gollier and Kimball (1994, 1996) have developed a standard technique based on the diffidence theorem. This theorem provides a very simple instrument to solve relatively sophisticated problems when preferences are state independent. The object of this article is to show that their theorem is also...

L'objectif de cette etude est d'analyser les accidents routiers des vehicules commerciaux motorises (entreprises de transport par camions et par autobus). Nous voulons particulierement verifier comment les activites de prevention routiere des proprietaires et des conducteurs affectent les taux...

We study the effect of riskiness on optimal portfolio. As discussed by Levy (1992), the main drawback of the standard model witg ine decision variable and one risky asset developed over the last twenty-five years, following the contributions of Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970,1971) and Hadar and...

In this paper, we propose an empirical analysis of the presence of adverse selection in an insurance market. We first present a theoratical model of a market with adverse selection and we introduce different issues related to transaction costs, accident costs, risk aversion and moral hazard. We...

We discuss how to detect the informational content of household decisions among the explanatory variables of econometric models. Two applications to the choice of automobile insurance contracts and the demand for life insurance are provided. We show that the information provided by additional...