Economic efficiency is improved in the presence of an implemented risk management program of the insurer. Risk management requirements are imposed by regulators to reduce the insurers’ insolvency risk, as well as to improve the insurance market stability. We extend the classical analysis on optimal insurance design to the case when the insurer implements regulatory requirements (Value-at-Risk)....

In this paper, the effects of new methods for risk classification, e.g., genetic tests, on health insurance markets are studied using an insurance model with state contingent utility functions. The analysis focuses on the case of treatment costs higher than the patient's willingness to pay where standard models of asymmetric information are not applicable. In this case, the benefit from signing...

It has been established that categorical discrimination based on observable characteristics such as gender, age, or ethnicity enhances efficiency. We consider a different form of risk classification where there exists some costless yet imperfectly informative test on risk types, with the test outcome unknown to the agents ex-ante. We show that a voluntary risk classification where agents are gi...

Under conditions of informational asymmetry, redistributing the property rights may improve work incentives but lead to an inefficient choice of entrepreneurial risk. We present a model in which reassignment of property rights does not affect factor prices and we show that there exist egalitarian asset redistributions that enhance allocative efficiency. The scope for such redistributions can be...

This stuely aflempts to measure the prodllctivi~y of Ihe life insurance inelustry by employing the non-parametric Malmquist Index approach. The ]inding shows that despite the productivity growth in the insurance industry, it is relatively loll' compared to the real economic growth experienced by Malaysia. Like the mallufacllfring sectol; thefurure growth of this indusll~y 1V0uld depend on its a...