IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/genrir/v37y2012i2p258-284.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Disappointment and the Optimal Insurance Contract

Author

Listed:
  • Rachel J Huang

    (Graduate Institute of Finance, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
    Risk and Insurance Research Center (RIRC), National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.)

  • Pai-Ta Shih

    (Department of Finance, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. E-mails: ptshih@management.ntu.edu.tw; tzeng@ntu.edu.tw)

  • Larry Y Tzeng

    (1] Department of Finance, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. E-mails: ptshih@management.ntu.edu.tw; tzeng@ntu.edu.tw[2] Risk and Insurance Research Center (RIRC), National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.)

Abstract

This paper studies the optimal insurance contract under disappointment theory. We show that, when the individuals anticipate disappointment, there are two types of optimal insurance contract. The first type contains a deductible and a coinsurance above the deductible. We find that zero marginal cost is just a sufficient but not a necessary condition for a zero deductible. The second type has no deductible and the optimal insurance starts with full coverage for small losses and includes a coinsurance above an upper value of the full coverage.

Suggested Citation

  • Rachel J Huang & Pai-Ta Shih & Larry Y Tzeng, 2012. "Disappointment and the Optimal Insurance Contract," The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 37(2), pages 258-284, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:genrir:v:37:y:2012:i:2:p:258-284
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/grir/journal/v37/n2/pdf/grir20122a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/grir/journal/v37/n2/full/grir20122a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cheung, K.C. & Chong, W.F. & Yam, S.C.P., 2015. "The optimal insurance under disappointment theories," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 77-90.
    2. Johannes G. Jaspersen & Richard Peter & Marc A. Ragin, 2023. "Probability weighting and insurance demand in a unified framework," The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 48(1), pages 63-109, March.
    3. Jean-François Outreville, 2014. "The Meaning of Risk? Insights from The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 39(4), pages 768-781, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:genrir:v:37:y:2012:i:2:p:258-284. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.