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This survey reviews the micro-economic foundations of the analysis of life insurance markets. The first part outlines a simple theory of insurance needs based on the life-cycle hypothesis. The second part builds on contract theory to expose the main issues in life insurance design within a...
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to do so in a near future. The increasing proportion of the elder people may modify the savings behaviour of households …. The level of savings, as well as its composition, may be altered by the ageing of the French population. This paper …
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to do so in a near future. The increasing proportion of elder people may modify the savings behavior of French households …. The level of savings, as well as its composition, may be altered by the aging of the French population. This paper …
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Cet article examine l’incidence des maladies invalidantes sur les contrats d’assurance santé en présence de sélection adverse. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons un modèle d’utilité bivariée de décision dans le risque. Nous montrons que l’introduction des maladies invalidantes modifie...
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In this note, we generalize the results obtained by Barday and Lesur (2005) by considering a bivariated non separable utility function. We characterize optimal health insurance contracts. Moreover, we show that under moral hazard a sufficiently high risk aversion implies that the optimal...
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Les Départements d’Outre Mer (DOM) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la métropole. Pourtant, les ménages des DOM sont moins nombreux à être assurés contre les catastrophes naturelles. En France, l’assurance habitation inclut obligatoirement la garantie contre les catastrophes...
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In this paper, we want to characterize the optimal health insurance contract with adverse selection and moral hazard. We assume that policyholders differ by the permanent health status loss and choose an unobservable preventive effort in order to reduce the probability of illness which is...
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