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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional … as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of …
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lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social damages). This article challenges this finding by arguing that health …
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Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …
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This paper aims at presenting the insurance cost-of-capital com- putation issue. It highlights two methodologies … premium adopted by supervisory authorities. These strategies are based either on market return of insurance companies or on … the modelling of insurance business profit and loss. We estimate a cost-of-capital rate corre- sponding to these basic …
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. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and … design such projects in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium, is …
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probit estimations, one for each type of non-agricultural activity (unqualified wage labour, qualified wage labour, and self-employment …
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We study an economy where intermediaries compete over contracts in a nonexclusive insurance market affected by moral …
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We consider a competitive insurance market in which agents can privately enter into multicontractual insurance … relationships and undertake hidden actions. We study the existence of linear equilibria when insurance companies do not have any … types of linear equilibria could exist: A first one in which insurance companies make zero expected profits, and a second …
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The recent fi nancial crisis has lead the IASB to settle new reporting standards for fi nancial instruments. The extended ability to measure some debt instruments at amortized cost is associated with a new impairment losses mechanism: Expected Credit Losses. In this paper, after a brief...
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