Insurance for Catastrophes - Indemnity vs. Parametric Insurance with Imperfect Information
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Keywords
business interruption insurance; insurance for pandemics; parametric vs. indemnity insurance; reversed asymmetric information;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IAS-2022-05-09 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-ORE-2022-05-09 (Operations Research)
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