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Forced saving, redistribution, and nonlinear social security schemes

Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2009) 1, pp. 86-98

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United but (un-)equal : human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The model...

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The design of insurance coverage for medical products under imperfect competition

Bardey, David; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2015

market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation …

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Social insurance with competitive insurance markets and risk misperception

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016

This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when … private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and … violated for the old age dependency risk (mainly because longevity in turn is positively correlated with productivity). We …

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Means testing versus basic income : the (lack of) political support for a universal allowance

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as well as the "severity" of means testing (if any), a BI system could only emerge in the political...

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Environmental taxation in open economies : unilateralism or partial harmonization

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - In: Southern economic journal 72 (2005) 2, pp. 352-371

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Second-best pollution taxes and the structure of preferences

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Ladoux, Norbert - In: Southern economic journal 68 (2001) 2, pp. 258-280

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Delaying inter vivos transmissions under asymmetric information

Cremer, Helmuth - In: Southern economic journal 65 (1998) 2, pp. 322-330

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