Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

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 …