Das Werk ist eine völlige Neubearbeitung und wesentlich erweiterte Fassung des Buches ";Informationsmanagement"; desselben Verfassers, das bereits vor Jahren im Oldenbourg Verlag erschienen ist und das schon damals sehr erfolgreich war - es mußte bereits nach kurzer Zeit nachgedruckt werden.

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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Lloyd’s: its history and business practices -- Chapter 3: Lloyd’s people: their social composition and political economy -- Chapter 4: Expansion, scandals and frauds – Lloyd’s in the 1970s -- Chapter 5: The first reforms and public scrutiny --...

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...