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Insurance Search and Switching Behavior
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
offer. This generates a situation of price discrimination where individuals without group contracts and higher search costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466330
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Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084433
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Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789080
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Performance Indicators for Quality with Adverse Selection, Gaming and Inequality Aversion
Kuhn, Michael; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector. We develop a model of contracting between a purchaser (principal) and a provider (agent) under the following scenarios: a) higher ability increases quality directly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123654
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Separating Selection and Incentive Effects in Health Insurance
Gardiol, Lucien; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves; Grandchamp, Chantal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method using Swiss insurance claims data for over 60,000 adult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124425
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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation … to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose their price and output levels … than traditional regulation where governments commit to both investment and operation cash-flows. This is especially …
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A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and managers do not share the same information regarding the operation characteristics of a facility. We show that larger shadow costs of public funds and larger information asymmetries entice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921773
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Tailored Bayesian Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence from Two-Stage Voting Games
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Optimal voting rules have to be adjusted to the underlying distribution of preferences. However, in practice there usually is no social planner who can perform this task. This paper shows that the introduction of a stage at which agents may themselves choose voting rules according to which they...
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(In)Transparency of Information Acquisition: A Bargaining Experiment
Gehrig, Thomas; Güth, Werner; Levínsky, René - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We analyze how transparency affects information acquisition in a bargaining context, where proposers may chose to purchase information about the unknown outside option of their bargaining partner. Although information acquisition is excessive in all our scenarios we find that the bargaining...
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Do Health Care Report Cards Cause Providers to Select Patients and Raise Quality of Care?
Chen, Yijuan; Meinecke, Juergen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012
We exploit a brief period of asymmetric information during the implementation of Pennsylvania’s “report card” scheme for coronary artery bypass graft surgery to test for improvements in quality of care and selection of patients by health care providers. During the ?rst three years of the...
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