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This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy … trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … of breach is negligible. However, as for much B2C insurance marketing, face-to-face selling plays a crucial role in our …
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, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …
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This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We …
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monopsony power of firms, even though regulation generates lower employment and income. Empirically, we do find that individuals … first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …
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Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
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regulation to an international agent eliminates that distortion, increasing wages and aggregate welfare …
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private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and … examine the role of uniform and nonuniform social insurance to supplement a general income tax when neither public nor private … (1971) equilibrium emerges in the private insurance market and low-wage/low-risk individuals are not fully insured. We show …
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The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community …
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product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …
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