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from worker self-selection may not be matched by a corresponding social gain. In particular, the equilibrium incentive to …
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A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …
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experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that … facilitates the estimation of marginal utilities of various attributes of a composite non-traded health-care service. Discrete … is that preferences for health-care attributes are significantly changed as a result of experience with the health event …
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as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … basic findings are that preferences change significantly as a result of experience with the health event; that the effect of …
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What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about … their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show …
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We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice …
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We study a labour market in which firms can observe workers’ output but not their effort, and in which a worker’s productivity in a given firm depends on a worker-firm specific component, unobservable for the firm. Firms offer wage contracts that optimally trade off effort and wage costs. As...
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Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
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We analyse the efficiency of the labour market outcome in a competitive search equilibrium model with endogenous …
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