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improve Solvency II regulation by aligning it with more sophisticated European regulation that is already in place for mutual …
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We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less likely to switch insurer than low-risk consumers. First, we find that insurers still have an incentive to select even if risk adjustment perfectly corrects for cost differences...
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all, in a sense to be made precise. -- Asymmetric Information ; Learning by Doing ; Regulation …
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This paper studies the effect of soft-budget constraints in a pure adverse selection model of monopoly regulation. We …-up allows governments to avoid re-funding moneyloosing firms and that welfare is larger than under traditional regulation where …
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We offer a novel explanation of underwriting volatility in property-liability insurance markets in terms of private uncertainty over public regulatory policy. Underwriting involving random losses to policyholders is one source of risk to the equity value of insurance firms. Solvency regulations,...
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regulation. To identify the effect of digital technology on regulatory compliance costs, we leverage a quasi-experimental policy … policy form and rate filing information. We find that digitization lowers the costs of complying with regulation. The average …
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The extent of regulation of insurance companies has grown significantly in recent decades. The ‘freedom with publicity …. Arguments that are given today for prudential regulation of insurers tend to be spurious or not well founded. Much government … regulation of insurance companies is unlikely to achieve its declared objective and might even encourage problematic behaviours …
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Health insurance is increasingly provided through managed competition, in which subsidies for consumers and risk adjustment for insurers are key market design instruments. We illustrate that subsidies offer two advantages over risk adjustment in markets with adverse selection. They provide...
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arrangements in designing its legal treatment. Such case-by-case regulation is likely to generate rules that are more equitable and … efficient. We offer a multifactor framework for implementing this “regulation by analogy.” …
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This paper examines the impacts of changes in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured loan limit in response to the Economic Stimulus Act (ESA) of 2008. We use difference-in-difference approaches to compare the number of transactions and average loan-to-value ratios for properties...
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