Availability Crises in Insurance Markets: Optimal Contracts with Asymmetric Information and Capacity Constraints

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-80

  Doherty, Neil A ^a   Posey, Lisa Lipowski ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Implicit contracts; Insurance crisis; Liability Insurance; Rationing; Truth telling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346676844     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007737904164     Document Type: Article

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