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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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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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The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …
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's technological efficiency to help them update their belief about another product's technological efficiency within the same product …
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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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account rather than focusing on the behavior of health professionals …
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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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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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In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
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In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940357