This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging can be discussed. To be efficient, these policies must recognize and exploit the dynamic complementarities between the timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income...

Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit steht die theoretische Analyse des Wohlfahrtseffekts, den der Einsatz der medizinischen Diagnostik beim Patienten auslösen kann. Die Abbildung dieses Nutzeneffekts erfolgt in einem entscheidungstheoretischen Ansatz, der es zugleich gestattet, die Bedeutung...

We study a patient-doctor-laboratory relationship in which the doctor's treatments are credence goods, clinical laboratory tests can provide information to mitigate issues arising from asymmetric information between the doctor and the patient, and the doctor plays the dual role of service...

This paper analyzes the patenting decision of a successful inventor in a model of dynamic technology adoption with asymmetric firms. We show that the extent of the inventor's technological headstart is decisive for his patenting behavior. The overall patenting effect consists of two parts, a...