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The public firm as an instrument for regulating an oligopolistic market

Cremer, Helmuth - In: Oxford economic papers 41 (1989) 2, pp. 283-301

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Mixed Oligopoly in Education

Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the …

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Maybe 'Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother' : Uncertain Family Aid and the Design of Social Long Term Care Insurance

Canta, Chiara - 2017

We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care, but it comes at the cost of crowding out informal care....

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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each...

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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products Under Imperfect Competition

Bardey, David - 2015

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … copayment instruments leads to the same reimbursement rule of individual expenditures as under perfect competition for medical … products. Additional rationing of coverage because of imperfect competition as advocated by Feldstein (1973) is thus not …

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Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Cremer, Helmuth - 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 productivity are negatively correlated. This condition is...

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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Cremer, Helmuth - 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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Means Testing Versus Basic Income : The (Lack of) Political Support for a Universal Allowance

Cremer, Helmuth - 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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Welfare Improving Tax Evasion

Canta, Chiara - 2020

We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed...

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