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Chapter 16: Q. 11 (page 398)

What is an actuarially fair insurance policy?

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The actuarially fair insurance policy is one in which the total premium paid equals the total compensation to be received.

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01

Definition of insurance.

A contract in which an individual or entity receives financial protection in the form of a policy against an asset is known as insurance. Difference types of insurance are life insurance, health insurance, car insurance, etc.

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Explanation

In health insurance, a few persons are at higher risk due to bad behaviors or hereditary abnormalities, while in property insurance, a few regions have a greater risk of theft and fire, and some drivers are safer than others.

The insurance firm will categorize risk groups based on the likelihood of negative consequences from events that occur and do not occur and will charge lower premiums for lower-risk locations or persons and higher premiums for higher-risk areas or people. When the expected net payoff from an insurance is zero, it is said to actuarially fair.

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Most popular questions from this chapter

Imagine that you can divide 50-year-old men into two groups: those who have a family history of cancer and those who do not. For the purposes of this example, say that 20% of a group of 1,000 men have a family history of cancer, and these men have one chance in 50 of dying in the next year, while the other 80% of men have one chance in 200 of dying in the next year. The insurance company is selling a policy that will pay $100,000 to the estate of anyone who dies in the next year.

(a) If the insurance company were selling life insurance separately to each group, what would be the actuarially fair premium for each group?

(b) If an insurance company were offering life insurance to the entire group, but could not find out about family cancer histories, what would be the actuarially fair premium for the group as a whole?

(c) What will happen to the insurance company if it tries to charge the actuarially fair premium to the group as a whole rather than to each group separately?

A website offers a place for people to buy and sell emeralds, but information about emeralds can be quite imperfect. The website then enacts a rule that all sellers in the market must pay for two independent

examinations of their emerald, which are available to the customer for inspection.

(a) How would you expect this improved information to affect demand for emeralds on this website?

(b) How would you expect this improved information to affect the quantity of high-quality emeralds sold on the website?

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What is the problem of moral hazard?

For each of the following purchases, say whether you would expect the degree of imperfect information to be relatively high or relatively low:

a. Buying apples at a roadside stand

b. Buying dinner at the neighborhood restaurant around the corner

c. Buying a used laptop computer at a garage sale

d. Ordering flowers over the internet for your friend in a different city
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