Insurance demand and social comparison: An experimental analysis

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 97-109

  Friedl, Andreas ^a   Lima de Miranda, Katharina ^b   Schmidt, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disaster insurance; Inequality aversion; Loss aversion; Social reference points

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901330042     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-014-9189-9     Document Type: Article

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