Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets under Adverse Selection and Yaari's Dual Theory of Risk

GENEVA Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-157

  Young, Virginia R ^a   Browne, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Nonexpected utility; Pooling equilibrium; Separating equilibrium; Yaari's dual theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008622915     PISSN: 09264957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008762312418     Document Type: Article

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