Value and Prices in a Reinsurance Market
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in ASTIN Bulletin
- Vol. 10 (3) , 263-273
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0515036100005894
Abstract
This paper concerns the Borch model of a reinsurance market seen as a model of an economy under uncertainty.In a market of this type the goods traded are unit coverings contingent to a particular state of nature (n-tuple of claims).Our idea is to regard the probability of a state of nature as a sort of intrinsic value of the related contingent covering. From this point of view we examine the role of the reinsurance market in modifying values in market equilibrium prices and other questions, related to this classical economic problem, in the particular case of a quadratic utility function for all companies.Keywords
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