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This paper aims to characterise a dynamic, incentive-compatible contract for the provision of health services, allowing for both moral hazard and adverse selection. Patients' severity changes over time following a stochastic process and is private information of the provider. We characterise the...
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all, in a sense to be made precise. -- Asymmetric Information ; Learning by Doing ; Regulation …
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. In a discrete choice experiment, effected in 2003, some 1,000 individuals were given the hypothetical choice of … and constituting evidence in favor of the risk selection hypothesis. The experiment allows to compute necessary premium …
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Universal health coverage is a widely shared goal across lower-income countries. We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find roughly 60% uptake even when consumers were charged...
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We study the effects of granting an exit option that enables the private party to early terminate a PPP project if it turns out to be loss-making. In a continuous time setting with hidden information about stochastic operating profits, we show that a revenue-maximizing government can optimally...
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We study the effects of granting an exit option that enables the private party to early terminate a PPP project if it turns out to be financially loss-making. In a continuous-time setting with hidden information about operating profits, we show that an exit option, acting as a risk-sharing...
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We examine equilibria in competitive insurance markets with adverse selection when wealth differences arise endogenously from unobservable savings or labor supply decisions. The endogeneity of wealth implies that high risk individuals may ceteris paribus exhibit the lower marginal willingness to...
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allocation. The model provides a cautionary counterpoint to one of the most popular arguments against the regulation of pay, i ….e., the argument that price-distorting regulation leads to inefficient matches of workers and firms. …
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