Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43256 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2008/38
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We examine insurance markets with two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don.t. In this setting, we characterize the equilibria under hidden information about the type of customers and hidden action. We show that both pooling and separating equilibria can exist. Furthermore, there exist separating equilibria that predict a positive correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, as in the standard economic models of adverse selection, but there also exist separating equilibria that predict a negative correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, i.e. advantageous selection. Since optimal choice of regretful customers depends on foregone alternatives, any equilibrium includes a contract which is oþered but not purchased.
Subjects: 
Asymmetric Information
Regret
Insurance
JEL: 
D03
D81
D82
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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