Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76615 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1116
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The stock of capital accumulated for each individual can be split into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, where the latter would be transferable between insurers without triggering premium changes through risk segmentation. In a simulation based on German data, the transferable share declines in age. It is smaller for women than for men, and it falls with an increasing age of entry into the contract.
Subjects: 
health insurance
lifetime contracts
ageing provisions premium insurance
simulations
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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