The Effect of Political Frictions on the Pricing and Supply of Insurance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Liu, Jessica; Liu, Weiling
• 署名单位: Northeastern University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0893-9454
• DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhad073
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1149
• 关键词: term-care insurance; ELECTIONS

摘要

Political frictions significantly affect both pricing and supply in the long-term care insurance (LTCI) market. Comparing the same insurer's requests submitted for the same policy at the same time to different state regulators, we find that they are 13% more likely to be approved and receive 4% more of the requested amount after an election year. Over time, regulatory pushback on premium increase requests leads to persistently lower cash reserves and increases the probability of company dropout. An insurer who receives one-standard-deviation less of their requested increase is 20% more likely to leave the market next year.Received April 1, 2021; editorial decision July 16, 2023 by Editor Ralph Koijen. Authors have furnished an , which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.