Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22793 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe No. 270
Publisher: 
Universität Augsburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Augsburg
Abstract: 
We examine the effects of ex post revelation of information about the risk type or the risk-reducing behavior of insureds in automobile insurance markets both for perfect competition and for monopoly. Specifically, we assume that insurers can offer a contract with information revelation ex post, i.e., after an accident has occurred, in addition to the usual second-best contracts. Under moral hazard this always leads to a Paretoimprovement of social welfare. For adverse selection we find that this is also true except when bad risks under self-selecting contracts received an information rent, i.e., under monopoly or under competition with cross-subsidization from low to high risks. Regulation can be used to establish Pareto-improvement also in these cases. Privacy concerns do not alter our positive welfare results.
Subjects: 
information moral hazard
adverse selection
insurance
JEL: 
D82
G22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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