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Indicate whether the statement is true or false, and justify your answer.
Under the typical assumptions of the Rothschild–Stiglitz model, there is nothing that an insurance company can do to distinguish between robust and frail customers.
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If firms suggest liberal insurance that lies lower than a robust individual’s indifference curve during their endowment point. The firms can not directly distinguish between robust and frails customers as robust customers will not prefer liberal insurance.
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