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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461
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Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany
Million, Andreas; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Rotte, Ralph; … - 2008
propelling role of those economic incentives in the German case. There are also important differences in the hospitalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072662
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Exit, voice or loyalty? : an investigation into mandated portability of front-loaded private health plans
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703964
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A simple model of health insurance competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698408
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A simple model of health insurance competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229026
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Reference pricing and cost-sharing : theory and evidence on German off-patent drugs ; conference paper
Herr, Annika; Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - 2014
This paper evaluates the impact of reference pricing on prices and co-payments in the (German) market for off-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference price affects the consumers' co-payments in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489291
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
Atal, Juan - 2018
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private long-term health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, German legislature made the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933930
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952588
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126038