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Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Trust and Insurance Contracts, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 35, Issue 12, December 2022, Pages 5287–5333, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhab112
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Abstract
We assemble homeowner insurance claims from 28 independently operated country subsidiaries of a multinational insurance firm. We propose a new insurance model, in which consumers can make invalid claims and firms can deny valid claims, as is common in the data. In the model, trust and honesty shape equilibrium insurance contracts, disputes, and claim payments, especially when disputes are too small for courts. We test the model by investigating claim incidence, dispute, rejection, and payment, as well as insurance costs and pricing across countries. The evidence is consistent with the centrality of trust for insurance markets, as our model predicts.
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