Standard insurance models predict that people with high (health) risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically … traditionally viewed as an intervention which increases efficiency and raises the utility of low health agents, we show that with a … documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two …

We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to … then occurs in equilibrium. Under competitive insurance markets, the anticompetitive exclusive equilibrium survives … insurance markets exclusion is desirable as long as no provider is excluded by all insurers. …

In countries like the US and the Netherlands health insurance is provided by private firms. These private firms can … understood. Using a Dutch data set of about 700 group health insurance contracts over the period 2007-2008, we estimate a model …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector … receive a low benefit from health care because quality is low then higher inequality aversion increases the optimal level of …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less … trade off between efficiency and consumer welfare. Reducing the difference in risk adjustment subsidies to high and low …-risk market. Finally, mandatory pooling can increase consumer surplus even further, at the cost of efficiency. …