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Government action, biases in risk perception, and insurance decisions : 074075 (E12) Viscusi W.K., Duke University, Durham, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 20, nr. 01, 1995, pp. 93–110


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
231 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-6687

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✦ Synopsis


insurance theory to departures from the expected utility hypothesis on agents' risk preferences. The areas explored consist of individual demand for co-insurance . .~and deductible insurance, the structure of Paretoefficient bilateral insurance contracts, the structure of Pareto-efficient multilateral risk-sharing agreements, and self-insurance and self-protection. Most, though not all, of the basic results in this area are found to be quite robust to dropping the expected utility hypothesis.


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