What are possible solutions for asymmetric information?
Pooling
Offer which is accpeted by both risk groups
Self Selecting
Two differnet contracts are offered, the insured buys the offer which is designed for his group
What are the Condition for Nash Equilbrium
A set of policies is called Nash Equilibrium
Contracts in A are purchased
Every Contract in A generates non negative expected profit
Outside A there is no set of policies that make non-negative (expected) profit individually and positive (expected) profit in aggregate, when offered in Addition to A
What are the Condition for Wilson Equilbrium?
A set of policies is called Wilson Equilibrium
Outside A there is no set of policies that make non-negative (expected) profit individually and positive (expected) profit in aggregate, after the unprofitable policies in the original set have been withdrawn
What are charactersitics of a profit maximizing offer in the Monopoly Case - Stiglitz Model
Self Selection design
High Risk customers receive full insurance
Low Risk are paying reservation price
The price paid by high risk insured determines the coverage level for low risk insured
Trade off between high risk profit increase and low risk profit decrease
high proportion of high risk customer yields higher risk premium
The smaller the high risk proportion, the higher the interest to insure low risk people
How does the Cooper & Hayes Model differ from the Stiglitz Model?
It includes two period contracts.
Which factors do explain the absence of a coverage-risk correlation?
Policyholders informational advantage
Absence of private information
Suprior informaition of insurer
Offsetting factors
Interaction between risk and other purchase related factors
What does the derivative of ARA tells us?
It quantifies how risk attitude changes with increasing wealth
What are empirical measures for risk aversion?
Holt and Laury -> choices between incentivized lotteries
Actual Decision oder risks
Domain specific risk taking
Self-Reported risk preferences
Name Pros and Cons for Holt and Laury and Explain their Study
Explaination
Observing Experimental choices in paid lotteries
Pro
Standard in economics
Established routine to estimate risk aversion coefficient
Cons
Individuals have diffilculties to understand measurement
Low retest stability
Name Pros and Cons for Decision under Risk
Actual Risk behavior is observerd
May be biased
Name Pros and Cons for DOSPERT and explain it
Explain
Scale of 5 domains of risk taking (Financial, Ethical, Safety, Social and Recreational decisions
Distinguish between risk taking and risk perception
Relationship to risk aversion is unclear
Difficult to adminsiter in time-sensitve setting
Name Pros and Cons for Self Reported Measure
Easy to administer for larger samples
Good prediction of risk behavior
Relationship to risk aversion measures unclear
Name the types of indemnity functions
What are the explanation for the LPHI v HPLI result
Individual do think in probabilites which are not equal to the objevtive probability
Due to habits, people under and overestimate risks
They buy insurance with subjective risk estimates, subjective probabilities but on an objective price
Describe the explanation path of subjective behavior
Describe the selected heuristics for biased selctions
Conjuction fallacy
Probability is based on plausiblity
Optimism
Overestimate favorable events
Availability
Events with more media coverage are perceived more likely
What does Rabin (2000) shows us within EUT?
Reasonable levels of risk aversion over large stakes implies risk neutrality over small to modest stakes
Risk Aversion over Modest Stakes implies implausible high Risk Aversion over large stakes
Describe Rabins Paradox
If diminishing maringal utility drives risk aversion, people should be risk neutral to modest stakes
This implies, that people should not purchases for insurances over modess losses, but people oftel select low deductiable at prices higher than the fair price
Describe Sydnor (2010) onver-insuring
People show high level of risk aversion on modest risk
RRA based on deductiable is very high
Diminishing marginal utilty alone cannot explain their behavior
What are explanation to describe the behavior from the result Sydnor (2010)
Borrowing Constraints
Sales Agent
Menu Effects
What are the results of the Cooper & Hayes Model?
Its a self selection design
Monopolists profit is greater than one period model
Term and Condition for second period depends on wheter a loss occourd in the first period or not
Interpret the second derivative of the Second Best Pricing -Premium function in regards do de/da
< 0 -> e is reduced more than linearly increasing coverage
= 0 -> e is reduced linearly with increasing coverage
> 0 -> e is reduced less than linearly increasing coverage
What is external moral hazard in terms of insurance theory?
If a insurance company has to cover a repair service, they have to distinguish between the price nad qunatity component
The insured looses their importance for prices
What is internal moral hazard in terms of insurance theory?
It denotes insuramce-induced changes in an insureds behavior which occours if the insurer cannot separatly observe the insureds behavior and the exegenous risk
What are some empirical studies related to moral hazard?
RAND Health Insurance Experiment: Found that more cost-sharing reduced medical visits but did not impact life expectancy (except for the poorest).
Oregon Medicaid Experiment: Increasing insurance led to more medical visits, but both necessary and unnecessary care increased.
What is the trade-off between risk allocation and incentives?
The insured should only take partial insurance and should substitue coverage by investing in loss prevention
Partial Insurance provides incentives
Only second best option can be achived -> its not only a risk allocation but also providing incentives for the insured
Define ex-ante and ex-post moral hazard.
ex-ante moral hazard: Behavior before the loss event, reducing the probability of a claim (e.g., risk mitigation efforts)
ex-post moral hazard: Behavior after the loss, influencing claim size (e.g., overstating damages)
What is the differnece between loss prevention and loss reduction?
What is moral hazard?
Moral hazard occurs when insured individuals reduce their effort to prevent losses because the insurance shields them from the full financial consequences of the loss.
What is the Khun Tucker Condition?
Please interpret the Second Best Pricing - Premium Function
dp/de -> the large this term, more effective is the prevention
de/da -> the larger this term, more moral hazard
the greater a, greater coverage
Describe the Rand Insurance Experiment
Families were randomly assigned to different coinsurance levels/fee for service
Results
More Cost Sharing reduced
Medical Spending
Medical and hospital visits
visits, but not cost of care
Describe the oregon experiment
Poor individuals got covered full, while others not
Necessary and unnecessary care were. increased
What is a business ecosystem?
It is a dynamic system with independent economic actors that provide products or services that together represents a coherent solution
Name pros for business ecosystem
Growth
Network effects
Added value through synergies
Customer loyalty
What are 3 roles of an ecosystem strategy map
Enabler
Supports realizer and orchester
Realizer
Porducts or service are offered fpr B2C
Orchester
Offers product or service from realizer via B2C plattform
What is the biggest challange for traditional unsurance companies?
Generate relevance for customer
Its about creating a postive experience
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