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This paper exhibits dynamic features of insurance contracts in the empirical analysis of moral hazard. We first show … with the number of past claims. We then show that dynamic insurance data allow to distinguish this moral-hazard effect from … evidence of moral hazard in French car insurance. Our analysis contributes to a recent literature based on static data that has …
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the insurance market. The model is consistent with the observation that insurers use credit scores to predict the … likelihood of a person filing insurance claims. …
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It is commonly argued that when innovation is sequential, and the product has network externalities, incumbents build a large network that inefficiently blocks the entry of future incompatible innovators. This paper shows that when intellectual property rights permit some degree of compatibility...
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Even though recent evidence suggests that productivity differences between countries account for the bulk of cross-country differences in per capita income levels and that a large part of these productivity differences are due to countries using different technologies, there is no formal...
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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade. Northern firms devote resources to innovative R&D to discover higher quality products and Southern firms devote resources to imitative R&D to copy state-of-the-art quality products. Both innovation and imitation rates...
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The strengthening of the U.S. patent regime in the early eighties was followed by a sharp increase in patenting but did not change the R&D expenditure significantly in some industries in the U.S. This “patent paradox†is prominently observed in complex industries, like the...
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of consumption insurance. When all agents are identical ex ante and there are complete contingent claims, then full … insurance can be achieved. Simple frictions, such as exogenous and endogenous borrowing constraints, liquidity constraints, or … one-sided commitment, lead to partial insurance, implying richer dynamics for wealth accumulation and prices, and can …
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