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of imputing lower values for persons with a compromised health status. We also find that income is positively and …
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benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences … contributions to health insurance. As one would expect, non-affected non-diabetics and insulin-naive diabetics exhibit higher …-benefit point of view. -- Health insurance ; discrete-choice experiment ; preferences ; diabetes …
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Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...
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decrease early-life mortality, in line with public health studies in advanced economies during the previous centuries. …
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We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...
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lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …
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We discuss the existence of a pooling equilibrium in a two-period model of an insurance market with asymmetric …
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objectives through the provision of (catastrophic) natural hazard insurance. This is the case of many OECD countries, notably … hazard insurance develop. This paper has a dual objective: 1) review the complex legal background that rules the provision of … insurance against natural catastrophes in the EU after these major reforms; 2) assess the implications of the reforms and offer …
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investment in insurance products, the dominant position of public sector insurers and their deteriorating financial health are …India's insurance sector has been growing dynamically in the last couple of years. Despite the suite of reforms that … have been implemented to stoke the sector's growth, it still has a long way to go, as its share in the global insurance …
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