Incentives and competition under moral hazard

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  • A. Attar
  • A. Chassagnon
چکیده

The work introduces a simple framework to study the relationship between competition and incentives under non-exclusivity. We characterize the equilibria of an insurance market where intermediaries compete over the contracts they offer to a single consumer in the presence of moral hazard. Non-exclusivity is responsible for under-insurance and positive profits in an otherwise competitive set-up. A relevant notion of optimality is also introduced and it is argued that market equilibria fail to be constrained-efficient.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006