Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study pilot survey, this paper analyses the relationship between work and health in middle-aged and elderly people in China. Using an instrumental variable estimation and simultaneous equation model, this study confirms that health and pension...

This paper investigates a widespread trend in the Taiwanese automobile insurance market in which the loss claims of vehicle damage insurance contracts have a high propensity to occur just before the end of the policy year (as opposed to calendar year). We show that certain uncommon...

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This study investigates the role of ownership and control structure of firms when determining their cash holdings and focuses mainly on the association between excess control rights and cash holdings. Using a sample of Taiwanese publicly listed companies from 1997 to 2009, this study shows that...

The purposes of this paper are to analyze the theoretical characteristics of the compulsory deductible system and to verify the rationality of an increasing per-claim deductible in automobile insurance. We derive the optimal variable per-claim deductible by assuming the insurers are financially...

Most exports from Taiwan to China are raw materials for manufacturing plants established by Taiwanese enterprises in China. The strong economic relationship between China and Taiwan is built on both foreign direct investments and exports. This study shows the mutual influences of various...

Healthcare reform in the USA requires all Americans to buy health insurance and businesses above a certain size to offer healthcare coverage to their employees by 2014. Understanding why some entrepreneurs do not provide employer-based health insurance is important and might help to solve future...

A new rating system of automobile insurance for vehicle damage in Taiwan was launched in 1996, introducing a deductible that increases with the number of claims. In this article, we provide a theoretical rationale for the existence of an increasing per-claim deductible system and show that the...

This paper analyzes equilibrium health insurance premium dependencies on signaling costs given individual health states, risk types, and risk type attributes. Since precise determination of an individual's premium is costly, insurers can categorize insureds based on relative screening costs. We...

This study offers an integrated framework involving antecedent paths to successful product innovation. The study explores conditional models leading to high product-innovation performance using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Based on relevant literature, this study...