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Three Essays in Health Insurance Coverage.

Rutledge, Matthew S. - 2010

Obtaining health insurance through an employer pools risk, but may lead to moral hazard, where employees with more coverage seek care valued below cost, and adverse selection, where the unhealthy choose more generous plans, driving up premiums. In the first essay, I model the decision to choose...

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Anreize und Privatheit bei modernen Monitoring Technologien: das Beispiel der Kfz-Versicherungsvertr?ge

Filipova-Neumann, Lilia - 2008

Im Fahrzeugbau und im Verkehrswesen hat die praktische Umsetzung von Ubiquitous Computing Technologien einen hohen Grad erreicht. Unter diesem Begriff ist die Ausstattung unterschiedlicher Gegenst?nde mit Prozessoren und Sensoren zu verstehen, welche in der Lage sind, Daten ?ber ihren eigenen...

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Consequences of the TRIPS-Agreement for the provision of pharmaceuticals in developing countries

Oppermann, Julia - 2008

Arzneimittel zur Behandlung dieser Krankheit. Zum anderen wurde auch der Mangel wirksamer Medikamente gegen vernachlässigte … Immatrialgüterrechte wesentliche Vorraussetzung für die konstante Entwicklung innovativer Arzneimittel seien. Kritiker des TRIPS … Arzneimittel gegen vernachlässigte Krankheiten bis zum 30.06.2008 überprüft. Unter Berücksichtigung des kurzfristigen …

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...

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An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Claudio, Lucarelli - 2006

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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Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and the Dynamics of the Labor Market

Zhang, Min - 2009

This thesis examines a number of issues regarding the Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model’s empirical performance. Chapter 1 documents the volatility puzzle with the Canadian data. The combined data from both Canada and the United States present an additional difficulty. Even if the...

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Accounting for employee share options : a critical analysis

Sacho, Zwi Yosef - 2003

The main goal of this dissertation was to obtain an understanding as to the true economic nature of employee share options and the problems surrounding the accounting thereof.The main conclusion of this study is that employee share options should be expensed in the income statement as and when...

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Essays in health care economics: structural approaches to measuring moral hazard and adverse selection.

Marsh, Christina L. - 2010

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2010. Major: Economics. Advisors: Patrick Bajari and Robert Town. 1 computer file (PDF): x, 136 pages, appendices A.

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Essays on Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Insurance Market

Wen, Jian - 2010

Essay One examines the asymmetric information problem between primary insurers and reinsurers in the reinsurance industry and contributes uniquely to the separation of adverse selection from moral hazard, if both are present. A two-period principal-agent model is set up to identify the signals...

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Reinsurance Contracting with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Theory and Evidence

Yan, Zhiqiang - 2009

This dissertation includes two essays on adverse selection and moral hazard problems in reinsurance markets. The first essay builds a competitive principal-agent model that considers adverse selection and moral hazard jointly, and characterizes graphically various forms of separating Nash...

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