Does competitive pricing cause market breakdown under extreme adverse selection?

Does competitive pricing cause market breakdown under extreme adverse selection?

We study market breakdown in a finance context under extreme adverse selection with and without competitive pricing. Adverse selection is extreme if for any price there are informed agent types with whom uninformed agents prefer not to trade. Market breakdown occurs when no trade is the only equilibrium outcome. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for market breakdown. If the condit...

Adverse Selection, Market Structure, and Competitive Pricing in Bank Lending

evidence of adverse selection in irans health insurance market

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Adverse Selection Under Ambiguity∗ Job Market Paper

This paper analyses a bilateral trade problem with asymmetric information and ambiguity aversion. There is a buyer and a seller who bargain over the exchange of an indivisible good. The seller is privately informed about the quality of the good, which determines both his valuation and the buyer’s valuation. In the absence of ambiguity, the contract that maximizes the buyer’s payoff is a posted ...

Competitive Insurance Markets under Adverse Selection and Capacity Constraints

Ever since the seminal work by Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) on competitive insurance markets under adverse selection the equilibrium-non-existence problem has been one of the major puzzles in insurance economics. We extend the original analysis by considering firms which face capacity constraints, which might be due to limited capital. We show that under mild assumptions a pure strategy equil...