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Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance
Powell, David; Goldman, Dana P. - 2014
Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets. The authors use claims … attempted to estimate moral hazard in private health insurance by assuming that individuals respond only to the spot price, end …, economic intuition suggests that the nonlinear budget constraints generated by health insurance plans make these assumptions …
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Analysis of the International Trade Networks of Covid-19 Medical Products
Kurbucz, Marcell Tamás; Sugár, András; Keresztély, Tibor - 2023
This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of how and for what reasons the world trade networks of medical products were reorganized during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To do this, first, the trade data of eight COVID-19-related product categories (such as medical test kits...
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A Structural Model of Correlated Learning and Late-Mover Advantages : The Case of Statins
Ching, Andrew T. - 2019
's technological efficiency to help them update their belief about another product's technological efficiency within the same product …
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How to Integrate Administrative Law and Tort Law : The Regulation of Stem Cell Products
Munzer, Stephen R. - 2013
successfully integrated to create a comprehensive legal and regulatory system that will promote the safety and efficiency of stem …
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Consumer Learning and Heterogeneity : Dynamics of Demand for Prescription Drugs after Patent Expiration
Ching, Andrew T. - 2012
This paper investigates whether aggregate consumer learning together with consumer heterogeneity in price sensitivity could explain why (i) there is a slow diffusion of generic drugs into the market, and (ii) brand-name originators keep increasing their prices over time even after the number of...
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Demand for Pharmaceutical Drugs : A Choice Modelling Experiment
Merino-Castello, Anna - 2005
account rather than focusing on the behavior of health professionals …
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An evaluation of simulated network in the hierarchical spatial autoregressive model : homophily based interactions matter for the consumption behaviours
Łashkiewicz, Edyta - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 15 (2015) 2, pp. 231-247
The aim of the paper is an examination wheatear the social spillover of consumption behaviours differs for the homophily and heterophily based structure of interactions. As an approximation of agents' behaviours households' expenditures with the reference person attributes were used. The...
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A microeconometric characterisation of household consumption using quantile regression
Ronning, Gerd; Schulz, Niels - 2002
The paper uses micro cross-section data from the GfK consumer panel for econometric demand analysis of private households in Germany. Contrary to most research which considered "average" behavior we extend this approach to consumer behavior for different "intensities" of consumption. Our...
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Satisfaction and protection of individual mobile telecommunications consumers : need for regulation? ; [prepared for presentation at the European Regional Conference of the Interna...
Gijón Tascón, Covadonga; Garín-Muñoz, Teresa; … - 2012
can increase the efficiency of the industry and the welfare of telecommunications consumers. The specific research …
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Wealth Effect on Consumption during the Sovereign Debt Crisis : Households Heterogeneity in the Euro Area
Garbinti, Bertrand - 2020
This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth (MPC) both across and within countries. We estimate the MPC based on a cross-country harmonized household level dataset which combines surveys on wealth, income and consumption. We use panel regressions and...
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