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The role of product design in consumers' choices in the individual insurance market
Kapur, Kanika; Marquis, M. Susan; Beeuwkes Buntin, Melinda - 2007
Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health … insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan.Data Sources and Study Setting. Administrative data from the three …
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Demographic and economic trends in medical schemes--a time series analysis [Demografiese en ekonomiese tendense vir mediese skemas--'n tydreeksanalise.]
Hartshorne J.E.; Carstens I.L. - 1991
A time series analysis was performed on medical scheme statistics with the aim of determining current and future demographic and economic trends. This would enable one to reach a better perspective on the current and future financial dilemma presently experienced by medical schemes. Data for the...
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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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On inequality tax evasion and progressive taxes
Lahiri, Radhika; Phoon, Mark - 2010
This paper proposes a simple variation of the Allingham and Sandmo (1972) construct and integrates it to a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents. We study an overlapping generations framework i n which agents must initially decide whether to evade taxes or not. In the...
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The Effects of Export-Oriented, FDI-Friendly Policies on the Balance of Payments in a Developing Economy: A General Equilibrium Investigation
Razmi, Arslan - 2005
Many developing countries have adopted investor-friendly policies in recent years in order to attract export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have been largely ignored. This paper endogenizes FDI inflows in a structuralist general...
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Essays on redistribution
Samano-Penaloza, Daniel - 2009
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Narayana R. Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 107 pages, appendices A-B.
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Geothermal Electric Projects from a User's Viewpoint
Nugent, James M. - 2006
increased risk as perceived by utilities, banks and lessors and the unpredictability of those risks as perceived by insurance … higher rate of return obtaining insurance; or some combination of DOE loan guarantee, lease and insurance. No attempt has …
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Applications of Solar Technology for Catastrophe Response, Claims Management, and Loss Prevention
Deering, A.; Thornton, J.P. - 2008
Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and … the Insurance Industry.'' Presentations were made by insurance company representatives, insurance trade groups, government … discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to reducing insurance losses. …
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Geopressured-geothermal energy development: government incentives and institutional structures
Frederick, D.O.; Prestwood, D.C.L.; Roberts, K.; … - 2007
The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...
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