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that hardly explains the many features of an insurance contract. We extend this setup to include the situation that the … show how the law of insurance contracts should allow insurers to incentivize policyholders to exert an adequate level of …
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; (6) mobilizing additional nongovernment resources via insurance (including social health insurance, and community and … private insurance); (7) increasing cost-recovery measures; and (8) increasing efficiency. The paper concludes that the chief …
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purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in most … lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured's actual expenses, i.e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchasing certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …
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This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
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contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare.Integrating the principal-agent and …
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spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires both unemployment benefits and wage insurance …, supply difficulties limit actual-loss insurance, and separation packages typically include partial unemployment insurance and … integration of these insurance instruments in this complex planning environment. One important implication: given the structure of …
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In this paper, we ask under what conditions norms can enhance welfare by mitigating moral hazard in income insurance … social norms and internalized norms. We study how optimal insurance arrangements, the behavior of insured individuals, and …
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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
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Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their … employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private … increased insurance coverage on workers' outcomes are thus ambiguous. This paper aims to separate worker and insurer responses …
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