[fre] Cet article vise à déterminer comment le recours aux tests diagnostiques peut affecter la demande de prévention et celle de soins. Tandis que la demande de prévention et celle de tests diagnostiques sont des substituts, la relation entre médecine diagnostique et curative est moins...

In this paper we examine how diagnostic tests affect the demands both for prevention and for treatments. While diagnostic tests and primary prevention are clearly substitutes, the link between diagnostic tests and the demand for treatment is ambiguous. Classification JEL : D81

We analyze the optimal choices of agents with utility functions whose derivatives alternate in sign, an important class that includes most of the functions commonly used in economics and finance (Mixed Risk Aversion, MRA, Caballé and Pomansky, 1996). We propose a comparative mixed risk aversion...