Hidden insurance in a moral-hazard economy

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Journal: RAND Journal of Economics
Year: 2015
Volume: 46
Issue: 4
Pages: 777-790

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Abstract

type="main"> <p>We analyze the general equilibrium of an economy in which a competitive industry produces nonexclusive insurance services. The equilibrium is inefficient because insurance contracts cannot control moral hazard, and welfare can be improved by policies that reduce insurance by increasing its price above marginal cost. We discuss how insurance production costs that exceed expected claim payments interact with moral hazard in determining the equilibrium's inefficiency, and show that these costs can make insurance premia so actuarially unfair as to validate the standard first-order conditions we exploit in our analysis.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:bla:randje:v:46:y:2015:i:4:p:777-790
Journal Field
Industrial Organization
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-24