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Transferable Ageing Provisions in Individual Health Insurance Contracts

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used tosmooth the premium profile. The capital stock accumulated for each individual can bedecomposed into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, onlythe latter being transferable between insurers without triggering premium changesthrough risk segmentation. In a simulation based on German data, the transferable sharedeclines in age and falls with an increasing age of entry into the contract. In spite ofdifferent benefit profiles, it is almost identical for women and men.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 32

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Thema
Health insurance
lifetime contracts
ageing provisions
premium insurance
simulations

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Baumann, Florian
Meier, Volker
Werding, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2006

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Baumann, Florian
  • Meier, Volker
  • Werding, Martin
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2006

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