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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial … features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban. Smokers and non … the smoking regime strategically. Since the (dis)utility from smoking and social interaction are substitutes, the smoking …
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In this paper we investigate the possible presence of switching costs when consumers are offered the opportunity to change their basic health insurance provider. We focus on the specific case of Switzerland which implemented a pure form of competition in basic health insurance markets. We...
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This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...
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This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...
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