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Genetic testing when there is a mix of compulsory and voluntary health insurance
Hoel, Michael; Iversen, Tor - 2001
Genetic insurance can deal with the negative effects of genetic testing on insurance coverage and income distribution when the insurer has access to information about test status. Hence, efficient testing is promoted. When information about prevention and test status is private, two types of...
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How is the trade-off between adverse selection and discrimination risk affected by genetic testing? : theory and experiment
Bardey, David; De Donder, Philippe; Mantilla, César - 2017 - This version: April 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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Science vs. profit in research : lessons from the human genome project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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Genetic testing and repulsion from chance
Hoel, Michael; Iversen, Tor; Nilssen, Tore; Vislie, Jon - 2004
A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. We analyze this issue within a model with the following important feature: A person s well-being...
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Genes, economics, and happiness
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fowler, James H.; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a "baseline" happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in...
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One chance in a million : altruism and the bone marrow registry
Bergstrom, Theodore C. (contributor);  … - 2007
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Bitcoin and web search query dynamics : is the price driving the hype or is the hype driving the price?
Süssmuth, Bernd - 2019
Using a battery of timely multivariate time series techniques I study the Bitcoin cryptocurrency price series and web search queries with regard to their mutual predictability, Granger-causality and cause-effect delay structure. The Bitcoin is at first treated as a general currency, then as a...
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Another look at cryptocurrency bubbles
Gronwald, Marc - 2019
This paper deals with cryptocurrency bubbles. First, it points out that a number of recent papers on cryptocurrency … bubbles are awed due to an insufficient consideration of the fundamental value of cryptocurrencies. As even fiat money is said … to exhibit features of bubbles, the same applies to cryptocurrencies. Thus, any empirical investigation into either the …
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Bubbles in hybrid markets : how expectations about algorithmic trading affect human trading
Farjam, Mike; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2015
Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments … smaller bubbles if human traders expect algorithmic traders to be present. …
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Market depth, leverage, and speculative bubbles
Enders, Zeno; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2017
We develop a model of rational bubbles based on leverage and the assumption of an imprecisely known maximum market size … lend to traders with limited liability in a bubble is endogenous. Bubbles reduce welfare of future investors. We provide … general conditions for the possibility of bubbles depending on uncertainty about market size, traders' degree of leverage and …
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