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Individual moral hazard engendered by health insurance and monopolistic production are both typical phenomena of drug … insurance against the risk of drug expenses. In contrast, the social welfare criterion suggests that individuals should purchase … more insurance coverage than they choose to do in the market equilibrium. …
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I provide an equilibrium analysis of 'selection markets': where consumers not only vary in how much they are willing to pay, but also in how much they cost to the seller. The model provides a joint explanation for three empirical phenomena: low uptake of existing products, slow demand for new...
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This paper is a preliminary review of the state of competition in the insurance industry of selected Asian countries … insurance industries of the ASEAN5 economies - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It has four main … sections. Section II surveys the market structure and overall performance of the insurance industry in the ASEAN5 economies …
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We examine insurance markets with two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don.t. In … positive correlation between the amount of insurance coverage and risk type, as in the standard economic models of adverse … selection, but there also exist separating equilibria that predict a negative correlation between the amount of insurance …
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We analyze the effect of counterparty risk on insurance contracts using the case of credit risk transfer in banking. In …
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In this paper we study the welfare effect of a monopoly innovation. Unlike many partial equilibrium models carried out …, the criticism against monopoly innovation based on its increased deadweight loss is less accurate than previously …
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This paper studies revenue-maximizing mechanisms for a monopolist who expects her buyers to resell in a secondary market. We consider two modes of resale: the first is to a third party who does not participate in the primary market; the second is inter-bidders resale, where the winner in the...
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This paper investigates the effect of credibility of environmental policies on environmental innovation and welfare. When the government precommits to an emission tax, the monopolist's abatement effort is lower than if the environmental policy is at the government's discretion. Time consistent...
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This paper analyzes optimizing decisions of a monopolist under uncertainty. The aspiration model directly accounts for asymmetric risk preferences with respect to downside risk. The optimal output (price) of a risk-averse monopolist facing marginal cost uncertainty will not exceed that of his...
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to charge the monopoly price. This paper compares a Demsetz auction, which awards an exclusive contract to the agent …
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