Complete versus incomplete insurance contracts under adverse selection with multiple risks

GENEVA Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-101

  Fluet, Claude ^a   Pannequin, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b GRID   (France)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Bundling; Insurance; Multidimensional screening; Multiple risks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040450413     PISSN: 09264957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008659916387     Document Type: Article

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