An insurance contract with a low compensation period under adverse selection

نویسندگان

  • Ben-jiang Ma
  • Chun-guang Qiu
  • Wen-Jie Bi
چکیده

Adverse selection has a significant influence on trading efficiency in insurance markets. Inspired by the quality identification function of the probation period in the secondhand car market, an insurance contract with a low compensation period is designed. It is proved that the contract can distinguish the risk types of the policyholders to achieve a separating equilibrium. And it can make a strict Pareto improvement to the traditional partial insurance contract under certain conditions. Finally, an example is given to demonstrate the

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Information Economics and Policy

دوره 31  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015