Insurance Intermediation An Economic Analysis of the Information Services Market /

• Main Author: Eckardt, Martina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2007.
• Series: Contributions to Economics,
• Subjects: Industrial organization.; Macroeconomics.; Social policy.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Social Policy.

Insurance intermediaries can help consumers to economize on information and transaction costs in insurance markets. However, competing intermediaries provide heterogeneous information services, which are difficult to assess by incompletely informed consumers. Conduct and performance in the market fo...

Table of Contents:

• Intermediaries in the Insurance Market
• An Economic Explanation of Insurance Intermediation
• Competition between Insurance Intermediaries
• The Market for Insurance Intermediation in Germany
• Conclusions.