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Quality of After-sales Services in a Competitive Insurance Sector
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Quality of After-sales Services in a Competitive Insurance Sector

Alessandro Fedele and Piero Tedeschi
Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Vol.40(1), pp.65-88
40
10/06/2014
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https://hdl.handle.net/10863/763

Abstract

This paper tackles the issue of unverifiable quality of after-sales insurance services, such as a prompt reimbursement of damages. A dynamic model is introduced in order to allow reputation to emerge as a means of disciplining insurance firms to deliver high quality. The equilibrium of a repeated Bertrand game among the insurers is analysed and conditions are derived under which more concentration in the insurance industry can lead to greater equilibrium consumer welfare.
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