An optimal insurance design problem under Knightian uncertainty

Carole Bernard1, Shaolin Ji2, Weidong Tian3
1Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
2Institute for Financial Studies and Institute of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, China
3Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

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