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Testing for adverse selection into private medical insurance
Olivella, Pau; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - 2006
We develop a test for adverse selection and use it to examine private health insurance markets. In contrast to earlier papers that consider a purely private system or a system in which private insurance supplements a public system, we focus our attention on a system where privately funded health...
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Versicherungsbetrug als ökonomisches Problem: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
Schiller, Jörg - 2004
Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten …
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Testing canonical tournament theory: On the impact of risk, social preferences and utility structure
Sheremeta, Roman M.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2012
We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...
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A contract perspective on the international finance facility
Lin, Tun; Mavrotas, George - 2004
The present paper is a first attempt to develop a theoretical model using a short-term vis-à-vis long-term contract framework within which donor countries’ endorsement or rejection decision towards the recently proposed International Finance Facility (IFF) is rationalized. The current foreign...
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When quality today affects service needs tomorrow
Eika, Kari - 2004
Quality in the human services has long term effects. Reduced quality of service now increases the service recipients’ future service needs and other social costs. This paper shows that such effects should be considered when a government designs contracts with a for-profit service provider. If...
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Profit sharing, wage formation and flexible outsourcing under labor market imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing … a wage increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so that outsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous. …
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Cream-skimming, parking and other intended and unintended effects of performance-based contracting in social welfare services
Koning, Pierre; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - 2010
In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based incentive contracts stress their potential unintended effects, including cream-skimming and other...
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Profit sharing, wage formation and flexible outsourcing under labor market imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing … a wage increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so that outsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269678
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Public sector contracting: An Australian study of changing work conditions
Ryan, Neal; Furneaux, Craig; Pink, Anthony; Brown, Kerry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 4, pp. 438-457
Throughout the 1990s, government reports such as the Competitive Tendering and Contracting Report (Industry Commission1996) and the Report of the Independent Commission to Review Public Sector Finances (McCarrey 1993), suggested that the contracting-out of government services would improve the...
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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...
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