Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37254 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Asymmetric Information and Risk No. C8-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We develop an insurance market model where consumers (i) exhibit present-biased preferences, and (ii) suffer from physical pain in case of (health-) damage. They can exert preventive effort to reduce the probability of damage. Sophisticated consumers correctly anticipate their effort and purchase full insurance. Naive consumers overestimate their future effort, purchase no insurance and end up with less effort than sophisticated ones. We allow consumers to differ in their wealth and risk preferences. Our model can explain why in some insurance markets there is a negative correlation between risk and insurance and a positive correlation between insurance and wealth.
Subjects: 
Insurance Markets, Moral Hazard, Hyperbolic Discounting, Sophistication
JEL: 
D82
D91
G22
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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