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Ausgehend von einem reflexiv vertieften Begriff des Arguments werden drei Grundlagenprobleme der Unternehmensethik beleuchtet: (1) Das Verhaeltnis von Theorie und Praxis, welches hier auf einen pragmatisch erneuerten Handlungsbegriff gestellt wird; (2) die Bedeutung der CSR fuer die...
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One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for excess utilization of medical care since they do not pay the full marginal cost for provision. To mitigate the moral hazard problem, a coinsurance can be included in the insurance...
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In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called "dead-anyway" effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their...
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Die Verlagerung von der ambulanten zur stationären Pflege ist eine der Hauptursachen für die Ausgabensteigerungen der gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung. Um diesen so genannten Heimsog zu reduzieren, haben die Pflegekassen ein Modellprojekt Personengebundenes Pflegebudgetinitiiert, das über ein...
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This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
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Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...
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We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of matching or information revealed by others'...
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The market for pediatric vaccines is unusual in that more than half are publicly provided through the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. The CDC negotiates with vaccine manufacturers for the purchase of all pediatric vaccines supplied under the program, and given the size of its...
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