Redistribution by insurance market regulation: Analyzing a ban on gender-based retirement annuities

We illustrate how equilibrium screening models can be used to evaluate the economic consequences of insurance market regulation. We calibrate and solve a model of the United Kingdom's compulsory annuity market and examine the impact of gender-based pricing restrictions. We find that the endogen...

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Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Poterba, James M., Rothschild, Casey
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52644
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684