Genetic Screening and Price Discrimination in Insurance Markets

GENEVA Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-130

  Hoy, Michael ^a   Lambert, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Genetic information; Insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346677880     PISSN: 09264957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008745627439     Document Type: Article

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