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procedures. A noisy signal, however, means that the optimal contract will involve terms that courts might view as punitive and so …
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provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck … of hauls in a way that is consistent with the theory. By contrast, we find that vehicle ownership, which defines a driver …
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This paper examines the existence and nature of competitive equilibrium with moral hazard. The more insurance an individual has, the less care will he take. Consequently, insurance firms attempt to restrict their clients' aggregate insurance purchases. If individuals' aggregate insurance...
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The nature, and normative properties, of competition in health care markets has long been the subject of much debate …. In particular, policymakers have exhibited a great deal of reservation toward competition in health care markets, as … care markets, concern about reduced competition has arisen. This concern, however, cannot be properly evaluated without a …
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-in university inventions supports the complementarity of milestones and consulting suggested by the theory …
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Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agents' output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is common to all the agents. The...
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This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a simple method of calculating the welfare gains from UI using this evidence. I show that 60 percent of the increase in unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a...
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Government relief is offered for a wide range of risks - - natural disaster, economic dislocation, sickness and injury. This paper explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with private insurance. It is shown that government relief is inefficient,...
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A significant source of risk arises from uncertainty concerning future government policy. Government action - - tax reform, deregulation, judicial decisions, budgetary shifts - - produces gains and losses for those who invested under preexisting rules. The effects of government relief - -...
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We derive testable implications of model in which first best allocations are not achieved because of a moral hazard problem with hidden saving. We show that in this environment agents typically achieve more insurance than that obtained under autarchy via saving, and that consumption allocation...
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