An Empirical Investigation of Asymmetric Information in China’s Automobile Insurance Market

Bo Qu (), Li Wei () and Ping Wei ()
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Bo Qu: National Internet Finance Association of China
Li Wei: Renmin University of China
Ping Wei: China Life Property & Casualty Insurance Company Limited

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2018, vol. 43, issue 3, No 7, 520-538

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we investigate the asymmetric information in China’s automobile insurance market and propose a set of risk classification approaches to alleviate it. Using a unique data set of automobile insurance coverage in China from 2011 to 2013, we discover that policyholders who purchase more insurance coverage are riskier, which indicates the presence of information asymmetry in China’s automobile insurance market. Controlling the attributes of the automobiles does not affect the main results. Moreover, based on data mining technology, we find that the risk classification approach is able to mitigate the problem of asymmetric information in China’s automobile insurance market to some extent with little additional cost.

Keywords: asymmetric information; automobile insurance market; China insurance market; risk classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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