Bolhaar, Jonneke; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lindeboom, Maarten - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the … recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system … substantial premium dispersion. We develop a simple consumer search model containing the main features of the Dutch health …