Does Opportunistic Fraud in Automobile Theft Insurance Fluctuate with the Business Cycle?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 47, 67-92, 2013

39 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2011 Last revised: 5 Jan 2023

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Georges Dionne

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

Kili C. Wang

Tamkang University

Date Written: July 25, 2011

Abstract

We analyze the empirical relationship between opportunistic fraud and business cycle. We find that residual opportunistic fraud exists both in the contract with replacement cost endorsement and the contract with no-deductible endorsement in the Taiwan automobile theft insurance market. These results are consistent with previous literature on the relationship between fraud activity and insurance contracting. We also show that the severity of opportunistic fraud fluctuates in the opposite direction to the business cycle. Opportunistic fraud is stimulated during periods of recession and mitigated during periods of expansion.

Keywords: Opportunistic fraud, replacement cost endorsement, no-deductible endorsement, automobile theft insurance, business cycle

JEL Classification: G22, G20, D80, D81

Suggested Citation

Dionne, Georges and Wang, Kili C., Does Opportunistic Fraud in Automobile Theft Insurance Fluctuate with the Business Cycle? (July 25, 2011). Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 47, 67-92, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1894738 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1894738

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Kili C. Wang

Tamkang University ( email )

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China

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