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Cutler, David M. - 1999

This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as moral hazard (the incentive of people to seek more...

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The Elgar companion to health economics

Jones, Andrew M. (contributor) - 2006

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...

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Themes in the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001

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The economics of health behaviours

Kenkel, Donald Scott (contributor); … - 2008

', Journal of Econometrics, 93, 49-72 -- Jonathan Gruber and Botond Köszegi (2001), 'Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence …Recommended readings (Machine generated): H. Leibenstein (1950), 'Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of … Kevin M. Murphy (1988), 'A Theory of Rational Addiction', Journal of Political Economy, 96 (4), August, 675-700 -- Engelbert …

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International Health Economics

Egan, Mark - 2013

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide....

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