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that hardly explains the many features of an insurance contract. We extend this setup to include the situation that the … show how the law of insurance contracts should allow insurers to incentivize policyholders to exert an adequate level of …
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This paper introduces the matched-bet mechanism. The matched bet is an easily applicable and strictly budget-balanced mechanism that aims to help people overcome time-inconsistent behavior. I show theoretically that offering a matched bet helps both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to...
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We explore the rationale for regulatory rules that prohibit banks from developing some of their natural activities when their capital level is low, as epitomized by the US Prompt Corrective Action (PCA). This paper is built on two insights. First, in a moral hazard setting, capital requirement...
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income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a … continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new light on the role and functioning of income insurance and makes it … is not regarded as outright fraud, but as a gradual adjustment of the willingness to go to work when income insurance is …
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Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the …
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these public insurance schemes face financial difficulty and consequently policy reforms are being discussed or implemented … insurance arrangements across Canadian jurisdictions. We find that insured plans invest about 5 percent more in equities than do …
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Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
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We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...
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Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...
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countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … change that took place in Austria in 2000. In September 2000, an insurance fund that refunded firms for the costs of their …
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