Insurance for Catastrophes - Indemnity vs. Parametric Insurance with Imperfect Information

Testing for Asymmetric Information in Automobile Insurance Market an Iranian Insurance Company

The presence of asymmetric information is an important source of efficiency loss for insurance companies and could reduce profitability. In this paper, we test the conditional independence of coverage choice and risk, where “conditional” means conditional on all variables observed by the insurer. We use two parametric methods: a pair of probits and a bivariate probit model. The data includes al...

asymmetric information in iran’s insurance market: case study for automobile insurance in iran insurance company

asymmetric information in iran’s insurance market: case study for automobile insurance in iran insurance companythis research aims to test the presence of asymmetric information by using the dynamic information of automobile policyholders in the iran insurance company (iic). the conditional independence test is conducted by bivariate probit model, the dynamic properties which are presented for ...

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.

Can an Optimal Insurance Contract Violate the Principle of Indemnity?

The principle of indemnity is well-accepted in the field of insurance and is also commonly assumed in the literature of optimal contract design. However, should this principle be imposed on all insurance contracts without exceptions? Does there exist an insurance contract that is optimal for both the insurer and the insured even as the principle of indemnity is violated? The answer is yes. This...

Insurance Markets with Differential Information

s: This paper attempts to understand the outcomes when each party of the insurance contracts simultaneously has superior information to the other. We decompose the risk of a policyholder into a general risk and a specific risk. We assume that policyholders have superior information about specific risks while insurers have superior information about general risks. When each risk can be either hi...