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Evidence on insurers' behavior in environments with both risk selection and market power is largely missing. We fill …. This policy increased enrollment into 5-star contracts, but without risk selection worsening. Our findings show that this …
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incumbent; with higher stakes, the incumbent puts more emphasis on loyalty than competence. Our theory sheds light on the …
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reports on direct measures of preference parameters relating to risk tolerance, time preference, and intertemporal … of preference parameters display substantial heterogeneity. The majority of respondents fall into the least risk …-tolerant group, but a substantial minority display higher risk tolerance. The individual measures of intertemporal substitution and …
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explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the …
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What can explain the large changes in aggregate demand that occur in the absence of any seemingly corresponding shock to the underlying state variables of the economy? We show that macroeconomic volatility can arise from dispersions of beliefs among agents. These dispersions give rise to bets...
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This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new … informally suggested that firms undertake errors in experimental choice (in particular, choosing experiments that involved biased …
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This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...
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School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent … emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states …
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electricity plan choice. Consumers were offered socially efficient dynamic pricing with randomly assigned take-up incentives. We …
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Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing … concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets - and little evidence on solutions to any choice … document large choice inconsistencies, with the typical employee foregoing savings of more than $600 in their insurance plan …
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