Developments in risk and insurance economics: The past 50 years
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- Henri Loubergé & Georges Dionne, 2025. "Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: The Past 50 Years," Springer Books, in: Georges Dionne (ed.), Handbook of Insurance, edition 0, pages 3-52, Springer.
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Keywords
Insurance economics; optimal insurance protection; optimal self-protection; insurance pricing; insurance demand; economics of risk and uncertainty; financial economics; risk management; asymmetric information; insurance markets; climate finance;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A33 - General Economics and Teaching - - Multisubject Collective Works - - - Handbooks
- B15 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- G52 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Insurance
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2024-03-11 (Banking)
- NEP-FMK-2024-03-11 (Financial Markets)
- NEP-HIS-2024-03-11 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2024-03-11 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-RMG-2024-03-11 (Risk Management)
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