We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

the context of consumer demand. In connection with these results, we interpret Afriat’s (1973) critical cost efficiency … index (CCEI) as a measure of cost (in)efficiency, in the sense that a consumer is spending more money than is required to …

This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We … combine an event study with a differencein-difference approach applied to Danish register data to quantify the selection. We …

for statutory social health insurance is estimated in two ways: first, using a linear utility function; and second, using … ; Preference Measurement ; Health Insurance ; Model Specification …

markets with small initial loss sizes, insurers may try to raise these in order to create demand for insurance. After having … defined insurance and non-insurance markets based on the initial loss size, we develop theory to show that insurers with buyer … power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not …

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment … social health insurance. -- health insurance ; health care ; regulation ; preference measurement ; discrete choice …-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It finds that restrictions on the freedom of physician choice would …

reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and hospitals to freely negotiate prices for elective procedures. Unlike previous … selection bias in our setting to identify the effect on quality of non-acute hip replacements. Using administrative data on all …

stationarity is based on a finite number of periodograms computed at low Fourier frequencies. It is not sensitive to the selection …