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The direct marketing of insurance
European Journal of Operational Research, 1998An insurance company, like many in the financial services industry, will advertise a product in the press and some readers will avail themselves of it. Often the cost of an advertisement will exceed the income derived from the accepted respondents in the following years. It only becomes profitable if acquiring names into a database results in purchases
Keet Peng Onn, Alan Mercer
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Market Power in Health Insurance, Effects on Insurance and Medical Markets
The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1979THE private health insurance industry is large and important. As discussed by Karen Davis [2], it figures prominently in several plans for national health insurance. However, very little is known about the degree of competition in that industry or the effect that competition has on insurance and medical markets.
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Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection
Journal of Political Economy, 1972The article develops a theory of demand for insurance that emphasizes the interaction between market insurance, “self-insurance,” and “self-protection.” The effects of changes in “prices,” income, and other variables on the demand for these alternative forms of insurance are alalyzed using the “state preference” approach to behavior under uncertainty ...
Ehrlich, Isaac, Becker, Gary S
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Insurance contracts and financial markets
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2023zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Andrés Carvajal, João Thereze
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Targeting weather insurance markets
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2020AbstractThe suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen countries, with the goal of enabling households engaged in agricultural activity a ...
Shawn Allen Cole +2 more
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1997
During the eighteenth century, insurance was regarded as a form of gambling. In Britain, wagers on birth, marriage and death was controlled by the Gambling Act of 1774 and the Annuity Act of 1777. Also, it was not clearly understood that different forms of insurance have different special features and that the nature of their markets also vary ...
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During the eighteenth century, insurance was regarded as a form of gambling. In Britain, wagers on birth, marriage and death was controlled by the Gambling Act of 1774 and the Annuity Act of 1777. Also, it was not clearly understood that different forms of insurance have different special features and that the nature of their markets also vary ...
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LEARNING AND EVIDENCE IN INSURANCE MARKETS
International Economic Review, 2023AbstractI analyze a model of monopoly insurance contracting where the consumer has access to endogenous, costly evidence of his risk type. I characterize when the consumer is worse off if the insurer is allowed to condition contracts on evidence and when the ability to contract on evidence leads to a Pareto improvement.
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Organizing the Health Insurance Market
Econometrica, 1992This paper presents a new approach to organizing universal health insurance. First the government divides the entire population into many large groups. Then, the government creates a Federal Health Insurance System (HealthFed), modeled on the Federal Reserve System, to fill the role now played by the benefits office of a large firm. The HealthFed would
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Premiums in a competitive insurance market
Journal of Banking & Finance, 1983From the assumption that the reinsurance market is complete, simple expressions for the competitive equilibrium are derived. It is argued that the equilibrium premiums in reinsurance, in the long run will determine premiums also in direct insurance. Some support for this argument is derived from a study of insurance against earthquake damage. The paper
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Advertising in Health Insurance Markets
Marketing Science, 2017The effects of television advertising in the market for health insurance are of distinct interest to both firms and regulators. Regulators are concerned about firms potentially using ads to “cream skim,” or attract an advantageous risk pool, as well as the potential for firms to use misinformation to take advantage of the elderly. Firms are interested
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