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types increases consumer welfare by leveraging competition from the elastic low-risk market to the less elastic high …
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Standard insurance models predict that people with high (health) risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between risk types lead to a violation of single crossing...
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Consumers, when buying health insurance, do not know the exact value of each treatment that they buy coverage for. This leads them to overvalue some treatments and undervalue others. We show that the insurance market cannot correct these mistakes. This causes research labs to overinvest in...
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We investigate the puzzle of microfinance: that loans generate large measured returns for businesses, yet loan take-up is low and the businesses often close. We analyze a randomized trial that bundled microfinance loans with a cheap health insurance policy. Requiring clients to purchase...
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. Uninsured consumers, however, are now not better off without exclusion. Competition among insurers raises prices in equilibria …
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based on managed competition. Although all insurers offer the same basic package (determined by the government), there is …
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In countries like the US and the Netherlands health insurance is provided by private firms. These private firms can offer both individual and group contracts. The strategic and welfare implications of such group contracts are not well understood. Using a Dutch data set of about 700 group health...
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This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method using Swiss insurance claims data for over 60,000 adult...
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provision or cheap talk, and competition inherent to social media may incentivize participants to either process better …, we find evidence that social media can be informative about future stock returns but that competition distorts opinions … rather than encouraging participants to process better information. In particular, competition induces exaggerated negative …
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This paper analyzes the link between firm exports and the competitive environment in foreign markets. We derive a theory-based econometric specification linking destination-specific exports to foreign demand and the degree of 'crowdedness' of foreign markets. The latter is a measure of the...
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