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Regulation of Insurance Markets [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, 1999
There have been major changes in the way European insurance markets are regulated, and there is still considerable debate about what the form and scope of regulation should be. This article examines the arguments for solvency regulation when consumers are fully informed of the insurer’s insolvency risk.
Ray Rees, Hugh Gravelle, Achim Wambach
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Targeting weather insurance markets

Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2020
AbstractThe 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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Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection

Journal of Political Economy, 1972
The 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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