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-time pension insurance, we consider a model where for each period of retirement separate contracts can be purchased. Demand for the …
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This paper investigates the effect of adverse selection and price competition on the private annuity market in a model with two retirement periods. In this framework annuity companies can offer contracts with different payoffs over the periods of retirement. Varying the time structure of the...
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retirement. In order to introduce the existence of limited-time pension insurance, we assume that for each period of retirement …
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We analyze the effect of ambiguous loss probabilities on competitive insurance markets with asymmetric information. We …
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insurance markets can be bad when there is adverse selection. Using the dual theory of choice under risk, we are able to fully … competition is less trivial. In effect monopoly is shown to provide better insurance but at the cost of driving out some agents …
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We examine insurance markets with two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don.t. In … positive correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, as in the standard economic models of adverse … selection, but there also exist separating equilibria that predict a negative correlation between the amount of insurance …
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insurance, we show that the risk adjustment commonly used to offset adverse selection can reduce the amount of coverage and …
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Bundled insurance contracts, providing protection based on several loss coverages, are attractive because they allow … insurers to focus on the needs of the policyholder. A common contract feature is a deductible set so that the insurance pays …. Without combined deductibles, it is straightforward to value bundled insurance contracts as the sum of contracts from each …
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The "money's worth" measure has been used to assess whether annuities are fairly valued and also as evidence for adverse selection in the annuity market. However, a regulated life assurer with concerns about predicting long-run mortality may price annuities to reduce these risks which will...
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Bundling credit with insurance contracts is a common approach to increasing insurance take-up, especially in low income …-environments. I document that this approach can induce adverse selection in insurance; thus, acting as an important source of …
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