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the parameters of a structural model of risky choice. Working with data on households' deductible choices across three … lines of insurance coverage and a model that nests expected utility theory plus a range of non-expected utility models, we …
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We estimate the distribution of risk preferences using a large data set of deductible choices in auto insurance … data on deductible and premium choices to estimate the distribution of risk aversion and how it correlates with risk. We …
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The idea that consumers are rational decision makers, who carefully consider options when making a decision about a certain phenomenon, will soon phase out! Believe it or not. In a bid to better understand the consumer, a myriad of economists still waste their precious time on “not-so-deep”...
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Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit …-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new variables in the German Socioeconomic Panel for the years 2002 … the data reveals that the effect of deductibles on the number of doctor visits is negligible. Private add-on insurance …
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Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit …-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new variables in the German Socioeconomic Panel for the years 2002 … the data reveals that the effect of deductibles on the number of doctor visits is negligible. Private add-on insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213324
Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change over time. This paper separates two sources of inertia, inattention to plan choice and switching costs. We develop a panel data model with separate attention and choice stages, linked by heterogeneity in...
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tightly regulated plans offered by private insurance firms. For most eligible individuals without coverage from other sources … conclusions about the role of risk aversion in the insurance decisions. …
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tightly regulated plans offered by private insurance firms. For most eligible individuals without coverage from other sources … conclusions about the role of risk aversion in the insurance decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490186
We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice …
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We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard … important role in explaining the aversion to risk manifested in deductible choices. This finding is robust to allowing for …
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