@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp7806, author={Bertola, Giuseppe and Koeniger, Winfried}, title={Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy}, year={2013}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={7806}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7806}, abstract={We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly production of private insurance services, we characterize the constrained inefficiency arising in general equilibrium from competitive pricing of nonexclusive financial contracts.}, keywords={first-order approach;principal agent;hidden action;constrained efficiency}, }