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To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...
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and social security contributions for corporations and their shareholders in the Netherlands and Germany. The analysis … direct taxation in the EU and growing international tax competition aligned with the process of globalization is followed by … burden for corporations is higher than those in the Netherlands. The effects of the different corporation tax systems (full …
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In this paper, we analyse different measures of asset and income poverty using micro-data for 15 euro area countries from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific definitions of income and wealth poverty affect the...
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Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change over time. This paper separates two sources of inertia, inattention to plan choice and switching costs. We develop a panel data model with separate attention and choice stages, linked by heterogeneity in...
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consumer surplus. We relate our findings to competition cases in digital markets. …
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We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur … overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are low, too much private data is collected, and vice-versa. Further, we … find that softer competition on either market side leads to more data collection, which implies substitutability between …
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