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Insurance in a market for credence goods

Sülzle, Kai; Wambach, Achim - 2002

We study the impact of insurance on the amount of fraud in a physician-patient relationship. In a market for credence goods, where prices are regulated by an authority, physicians act as experts. Due to their informational advantage, physicians have an incentive to cheat by inducing...

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Insurance in a Market for Credence Goods

Sülzle, Kai E.; Wambach, Achim - 2021

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Optimal Auditing for Insurance Fraud

Dionne, Georges - 2003

This article aims at making a bridge between the theory of optimal auditing and current procedures applied to audit … auditing strategy takes the form of a quot;Red Flags Strategyquot; which consists in referring claims to a Special … Investigation Unit (SIU) when certain fraud indicators are observed. Fraud indicators are classified based on the degree to which …

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Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Optimal Monitoring

Fuller, David - 2014

An important incentive problem for the design of unemployment insurance is the fraudulent collection of unemployment benefits by workers who are gainfully employed. We show how to efficiently use a combination of tax/subsidy and monitoring to prevent such fraud. The optimal policy monitors the...

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Preliminary investigations for better monitoring : learning in repeated insurance audits

Aboutajdine, Reda; Picard, Pierre - In: Risks : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-22

Audit mechanisms frequently take place in the context of repeated relationships between auditor and auditee. This paper focuses attention on the insurance fraud problem in a setting where insurers repeatedly verify claims satisfied by service providers (e.g., affiliated car repairers or members...

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Audit competition in insurance oligopolies

Boccard, Nicolas; Legros, Patrick - In: Frontiers of economics in China : selected publications … 12 (2017) 3, pp. 371-399

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Auditing claims in insurance market with fraud : the credibility issue

Picard, Pierre - 1994

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Uncertain bequest needs and long-term Insurance contracts

Fei, Wenan; Fluet, Claude; Schlesinger, Harris - 2008

We examine how long-term life insurance contracts can be designed to incorporate uncertain future bequest needs. An individual who buys a life insurance contract early in life is often uncertain about the future financial needs of his or her family, in the event of an untimely death. Ideally,...

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Corporate insurance design with multiple risks and moral hazard

Laux, Christian - 2008

The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm’s risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold...

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Does signaling work in markets for information services? : an empirical investigation for insurance intermediaries in Germany

Eckardt, Martina - 2007

Insurance intermediation services are information services which exhibit strong information asymmetries. We empirically analyze whether signaling works in the German market for insurance intermediation services. For this a signal must increase service quality and be easily identifiable by...

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