Adverse selection, a concept economists devised to explain insurance market failures, might seem far removed from the grand chessboard of geopolitics. Yet at its core lies a simple and unsettling ...

In life insurance, adverse selection describes the occurrence of individuals with a high-risk profession, hobby or health condition applying for life insurance more often than low-risk individuals.

As the Senate prepares to consider health-care reform legislation, a key policy issue remains unsolved: how to prevent what industry insiders call “adverse selection.” The bills under consideration, ...

Adverse selection in insurance markets may lead some consumers to underinsure or too few consumers to purchase insurance relative to the socially optimal level. I study whether common government ...

Insurers praised the Trump administration for shortening the open enrollment period when it came into power in 2017. The administration claimed cutting the period in half was to combat adverse ...

We examine a common value dynamic matching environment where adverse selection accrues slowly over time. Theoretical best responses are therefore time varying, and the prior experimental literature ...

Adverse selection is one reason why consumers can only enroll in a plan during a specific time of the year. If consumers could enroll whenever they wanted, many would likely wait until they needed ...

Stephen Gilmore says the $503 billion pension has to be among the key clients of its private-equity managers to ensure it gets access to the best direct deals.