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Personality Traits and Insurance Demand
Personality and Social Psychology BulletinPersonality traits drive people’s financial decisions and hence affect their lives. Yet, we know little about the relationship between personality traits and insurance decisions. Do Risk-Taking, the Big Five and Locus of Control predict a variety of personal insurance decisions?
Schilling, Thomas, Bleidorn, Wiebke
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On the Demand for Portfolio Insurance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010AbstractWhile insurers manage underwriting risk with various methods including reinsurance, insurers increasingly manage asset risk with options, futures, and other derivatives. Previous research shows that buyers of portfolio insurance pay considerably for downside protection.
Andy Fodor +3 more
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The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1968
This paper explores the possibilities of making fairly complex multi-variable demand forecasts for life insurance sold by utilizing readily available published data, plus an existing computer program available to everyone. The thinking behind this experiment was that if a good demand forecast could be made in this manner, insurance companies could have
George Mantis, Richard N. Farmer
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This paper explores the possibilities of making fairly complex multi-variable demand forecasts for life insurance sold by utilizing readily available published data, plus an existing computer program available to everyone. The thinking behind this experiment was that if a good demand forecast could be made in this manner, insurance companies could have
George Mantis, Richard N. Farmer
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How the demand for insurance became behavioral
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020Recent developments in research on insurance reveal a shift towards behavioral insurance. Decisions remain rational but in a broader framework of reference that accounts for the role of loss aversion, ambiguity, framing, reference points, and emotions in people's decisions.
Corcos, Anne +2 more
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The Impact of Insurer Name Changes on The Demand for Insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2013AbstractCorporate name changes are relatively common events, with some evidence suggesting that name changes are strategic in nature. Although prior research has examined the effect of name changes on the firm, these studies have focused primarily on the stock price reaction to name changes.
Cassandra R. Cole +3 more
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The Demand for Flood Insurance: Empirical Evidence
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1999Flood damages that occur worldwide remain largely uninsured losses despite the efforts of governmental programs that in many cases make insurance available at below fair market cost. The current study focuses on the financial experience of the United States' National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) from 1983 through 1993 to examine the hypothetical ...
Browne, Mark J., Hoyt, Robert E.
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Drivers of insurance demand in emerging markets
Journal of Service Science Research, 2011This study focuses on factors driving insurance demand measured as insurance density and growth rate of premiums in emerging markets during the years 1998–2008. Findings indicate that demographic factors explain a greater variance relative to economic and institutional variables for insurance density, while economic factors explain the greatest amount ...
B. Elango, James R. Jones
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The Theory of Insurance Demand
2000This chapter presents the basic theoretical model of insurance demand in a one-period expected-utility setting. Models of coinsurance and of deductible insurance are examined along with their comparative statics with respect to changes in wealth, prices and attitudes towards risk.
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An analysis of insurance demand in the newsboy problem
European Journal of Operational Research, 2017zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Richard Watt, Francisco J. Vázquez
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Abstract This chapter presents the conventional theory of the demand for insurance and compares it to the quid pro quo theory. It shows how, with the same assumptions, the quid pro quo analysis of demand would lead to the same welfare gain as the conventional theory.
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