Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46552 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3412
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We extend the seminal Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) model on competitive insurance markets with asymmetric information in the spirit of Wilson (1977)'s 'anticipatory equilibrium' by introducing an additional stage in which initial contracts can be withdrawn after observation of competitors' contract offers. We show that an equilibrium always exists where consumers obtain their respective Wilson-Miyazaki-Spence (WMS) contract. Jointly profit-making contracts can also be sustained as equilibrium contracts. However, the secondbest efficient WMS allocation is the unique equilibrium allocation under entry.
Subjects: 
casymmetric information
competitive insurance market
contract withdrawal
JEL: 
G15
F36
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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