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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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The twin problems of moral hazard and adverse selection are often blamed for the lack of insurance for many fruits and vegetables. This paper develops an alternative method of testing for adverse selection that uses a two-stage approach to determine the effects of technical inefficiency on the...
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We study the effect of government assistance on bank risk taking. Using hand-collected data on bank applications for … government investment funds, we investigate the effect of both application approvals and denials. To distinguish banks? risk … banks approve riskier loans and shift investment portfolios toward riskier securities. However, this shift in risk occurs …
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. By means of the data collected in cars they can better estimate individual driving behavior and accident risk which … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of … reveal to the insurer information about their own risk type, when risk type is due to differences in immutable …
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Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its in- ception: the inclusion of prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The policy debate has mainly focused on estimating the cost of implementing the...
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% per year on a risk-adjusted basis over the three-year period following the sale of their loan. Furthermore, they suffer a …
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Two complementary sources of information are studied in a multiperiod agency model. One is an accounting source which partially but credibly conveys the agent’s private information through accounting recognition. The other is an unverified communication by the agent (i.e., a self-report). In a...
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Moral hazard is widely reported as a problem in credit and insurance markets, mainly arising from information asymmetry. Although theorists have attempted to explain the success of Joint Liability Lending (JLL) schemes in mitigating moral hazard, empirical studies are rare. This paper...
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with at-risk capital. We identify market environments where these incentives are necessary for firm survival and interpret …
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discuss the advantagesand disadvantages of each source of funding and analyze them numerically for bothrisk-neutral and risk … increasingprogramme costs. For risk-averse farmers, however, conditions that ensure a positiveoutcome from compliance rewards become more …
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