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Cash holdings as a proportion of total assets of U.S. corporations have roughly doubled between 1971 and 2006. Prior research attributes the large cash increase to a rise in firms’ idiosyncratic risk. We investigate two mechanisms by which increased idiosyncratic risk can lead to higher cash...
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that technological change and the increase in the generosity of health insurance on their own may explain 36% of the rise … in health spending (technology 30% and insurance 6%), while income explains only 4% and other health trends 0.5%. By … in both income and insurance is larger with co-occurring improvements in technology. Technological change, taking the …
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-formulate our results in an insurance framework and extend the classical result of Arrow [4] and the more recent one of Ghossoub [24 …
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-formulate our results in an insurance framework and extend the classical result of Arrow [4] and the more recent one of Ghossoub. In …
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In this paper, we examine provider and patient behaviour where effort is non-contractible and where competition between providers is modeled in an explicit way. More specifically, we construct a model where physicians repeatedly compete for patients and where patients’ outside options are...
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Some Current Insurance Markets Are Troubled by the Presence of Systematic Risk Or by the Inability of the Parties to … Specify the Distribution for Aggregate Loss. Such Circumstances Partly Characterise the Topical "Liability Insurance Crisis … Mutals Appear to Outperform Stock Insurance Companies When There Is Undiversifiable Risk. These Results Represent an …
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