Testing for Asymmetric Information Using “Unused Observables” in Insurance Markets: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

This article tests for asymmetric information in the U.K. annuity market of the 1990s by trying to identify “unused observables,” attributes of individual insurance buyers that are correlated both with subsequent claims experience and with insurance demand but that insurance companies did not use to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Poterba, James M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Risk and Insurance Association 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95991
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684