evidence for adverse selection in the automobile insurance market rachel j huang assistant professor finance department ming chuan university taipei taiwan larry y tzeng of national jennifer l wang associate risk management and chengchi kili c instructor shih chien abstract this paper proposes a new method to directly test existence by tracing renewal decisions insured we find that choice coverage previous year claim records are positively correlated which can be result but not moral hazard further individual s loss ratio is with indicates cross subsidization may exist finding strengthens support jel classification d80 g22 c30 keywords asymmetric information introduction has been