Product differentiation and performance in insurance markets

The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1970 · 22.6K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Microeconomics +8

Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information

Michael Rothschild, Joseph E. Stiglitz · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1976 · 5K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Insurance +17

Competitive and optimal responses to signals: An analysis of efficiency and distribution

Michael Spence · Journal of Economic Theory · 1974 · 771 citations

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +8

Medical insurance: A case study of the tradeoff between risk spreading and appropriate incentives

Richard Zeckhauser · Journal of Economic Theory · 1970 · 601 citations

Business, Health Policy, Insurance +17

Insurance, Information, and Individual Action

Alan Spence, Richard Zeckhauser · American Economic Review · 1971 · 596 citations

Business, Insurance, Private Law +12