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How is the Trade-Off between Adverse Selection and Discrimination Risk Affected by Genetic Testing? Theory and Experiment
Bardey, David - 2017
We compare two genetic testing regulations, Disclosure Duty (DD) and Consent Law (CL), in an environment where individuals choose to take a genetic test or not. DD forces agents to reveal the test results to their insurers, resulting in a discrimination risk. CL allows agents to withhold that...
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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …
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Signing Distortions in Optimal Tax and Other Adverse Selection Problems with Random Participation
Jacquet, Laurence - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
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An Experimental Investigation of Risk Sharing and Adverse Selection
Tausch, Franziska - 2013
Does adverse selection hamper the effectiveness of voluntary risk sharing? How do differences in risk profiles affect adverse selection? We experimentally investigate individuals' willingness to share risks with others. Across treatments we vary how risk profiles differ between individuals. We...
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Government Outsourcing : Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779949
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Long-Term Care Insurance : Knowledge Barriers, Risk Perception and Adverse Selection
Boyer, M. Martin - 2017
We conduct a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect against financial risks associated with long-term care needs. Using exogenous variation in prices from the survey design, and objective risks computed from a dynamic...
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Self-Selection of Emigrants : Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
Borjas, George J. - 2015
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self‐selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the...
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Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2014
Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the...
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Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa
Andrianova, Svetlana - 2014
We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the quality of governance) and the degree of market...
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer - 2014
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
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