first show that simple fee-for-service reimbursement schemes do not provide proper incentives. If insurers use, however, fee …

Temporary incentives are offered in anticipation of persistent effects, but these are seldom estimated. We use a … nationwide randomized experiment in the Philippines to estimate effects three years after the withdrawal of two incentives for … health insurance. A premium subsidy had a persistent effect on enrollment that is more than four fifths of the immediate …

fees was made compulsory for the statutory health insurance companies and statutory requirements were imposed on the … evaluate to what extent the health insurance companies promote the increasing of vaccination coverage rate today and what … prophylactic vaccinations we have examined the websites of 68 statutory health insurance companies. We have assessed the attitude …

cooperative effort to control GHG emissions can provide adequate incentives for the US to move back to the Kyoto process and … assesses the participation incentives for the major world countries and regions in these three regimes. …

This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …

The theory of incentives and matching theory can complement each other. In particular, matching theory can be a tool …

unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …

The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search …-matching model allowing for shifts between good and bad states of nature. We show that not only is there an insurance argument for …

the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We find that the opportunity costs of becoming a teacher vary by …