<italic>This book indeed goes a long way towards clearing up misconceptions about insurance both on the part of consumers and, even more importantly, insurance managers and regulators. However, in the eyes of this reviewer, the authors are too quick to jump on the bandwagon of 'Behavorial Economics' in...</italic>

Bilateral intergenerational moral hazard (BIMH) has been considered as one of the most important reasons for the sluggish development of private long-term care (LTC) insurance. On the one hand, the parent, who relies on child effort to avoid admission to the nursing home, may abstain from...

This editorial presents a critical review of the health model pioneered by Michael Grossman (MGM) in 1972 [<CitationRef CitationID="CR8">8</CitationRef>]. It argues that whereas the MGM has great charm for economists, it fails to achieve acceptance by interested laypersons and policy makers. The main reasons for this failure are: (1) the...</citationref>

<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: Discrete-choice experiments (DCEs), while becoming increasingly popular, have rarely been tested for validity and reliability. <Emphasis Type="Bold">Objective: To address the issues of validity and reliability of willingness-to-accept (WTA) values obtained from DCEs. In particular, to examine whether...</emphasis></emphasis>

<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: A uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing are elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems. Both elements risk burdening the population with a welfare loss if preferences for risk and insurance attributes differ. This suggests the introduction...</emphasis>

This paper applies the five standard criteria for assessing the performance of an economy to one of its sectors, namely, the provision of health care. They are (1) matching of consumer preferences, (2) technical efficiency, (3) adaptive capacity, (4) dynamic efficiency, and (5) a distribution of...

How to deal with the risks associated with nuclear energy is a major policy issue. This paper investigates the effect of an individual's distance from nuclear power plants on its willingness to pay for increased insurance coverage against nuclear accidents (MWPC) as well as on willingness to pay...

This paper puts forth a critique of European solvency regulation of the type imposed on insurers by Solvency I and II. Insurers’ underwriting and investment...