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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From gateway to value ladder—The curious case of online mutual aid in China

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how InsurTech‐enabled information provision, specifically the disclosure of claimant information previously unavailable in conventional insurance, influences individuals' insurance uptake. We leverage Mutual Aid (MA) platforms as a natural context to examine how socially framed loss information, peer influence, and salience
Ze Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uninformative news, limited attention and institutional investors

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Using the universe of transaction‐level data in the U.S. corporate bond market around uninformative downgrades, we find an abnormal increase in trading volume, abnormal bond returns, and a subsequent reversal. On the contrary, we do not find a reversal for abnormal bond returns associated with informative rating actions.
Maria Efthymiou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Erklärungsansätze für vertragswidriges Verhalten von Versicherungsnehmern aus Sicht der ökonomischen Theorie [PDF]

open access: yes
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, in die ökonomische Analyse des Versicherungsbetrugs einzuführen und einige grundlegende Determinanten für vertragswidriges Verhalten von Versicherungsnehmern aufzuzeigen.
Nell, Martin, Schiller, Jörg
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From Discretion to Calculation: How Analog Automation Shaped Digitalization of Finnish Social Assistance

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biased by Design? Case Managers' Multidimensional Preferences Toward the Design of Algorithmic Decision Support Systems

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether street‐level bureaucrats' preferences toward algorithmic decision support (ADS) induce a unilateral shift of technology‐related risks onto clients of the public employment service. Expanding on public value theory and research on moral agency in public service work, we argue that case managers' choices of ADS ...
Martin Dietz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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