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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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Mandated Sick Pay : Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
Maclean, Catherine - 2020
This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837310
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Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection : The Theory and its Application to Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2015
We develop a stylized principal-agent model with moral hazard and adverse selection to provide a unified framework for understanding some of the most salient features of the recent physician payment reform in Ontario and its impact on physician behavior. These features include: (1) physicians...
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Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance Coverage in Credence Goods Markets
Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2021
framework. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic … uncertainty decreases the rate of efficient service provision and leads to less trade. In theory, insurance also decreases the …
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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 market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028181
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Hospital Resources : Persistent Reallocation Under Price Changes
Wozny, Florian - 2020
the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to …
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Use and Abuse of Authority : A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation
Bartling, Björn - 2012
, endogenous formation of efficient long-run employment relations. Our results inform the theory of the firm by showing how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096768
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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies : The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Barnett, Andy - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - 2021
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but … leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … integration or non-integration is optimal. Our theory thus provides a simple answer to Williamson's "selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317478
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Coordination of Hours within the Firm
Labanca, Claudio; Pozzoli, Dario - 2023
Although coworkers are spending an increasing share of their working time interacting with one another, little is known about how the coordination of hours among heterogenous coworkers affects pay, productivity and labor supply. In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data on hours worked...
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