This paper exploits the transitions between tax-financed health care and social health insurance in the OECD countries over the period 1960-2006 to assess the effects of adopting social health insurance over tax finance on per capita health spending, amenable mortality, and labor market...

This paper explores the structure of cross-border health purchasing between Austria and Hungary and determines the size of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase. Austrian patients may receive health care treatment in Hungary in three different ways. First, patients may...

Previous work on the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and patients' out-of-pocket payments (OOP) in China has overlooked the mediating mechanisms of the institutional arrangement. This study establishes a conceptual framework involving the reimbursement, behavior...

A consensus exists that rising income levels and technological development are among the key drivers of total health spending. However, determinants of public sector health expenditure are less well understood. This study examines a complex relationship across government health expenditure...

Gesundheitssysteme, Afrika, Sozialversicherung, Krankenversicherung, Informeller Sektor, Gesundheitssystementwicklung, Soziale Krankenversicherung, gemeindebasierte Krankenversicherung, Integrierte Soziale Sicherung, Universelle Abdeckung, Universal Health Coverage, Social Health Insurance,...

This paper discusses the problem of crowding out of insurance by co-existing governmental relief programs - so-called 'charity hazard' - in a context of different institutional schemes of governmental relief in Austria and Germany. We test empirically whether an assured partial relief scheme (as...

The present paper analyzes the demand for insurance when the insurer has incomplete information about types of potential customers. We assume that customers' risk preferences cannot be distinguished by the insurer. Therefore, the standard result in insurance economics that the insurer...

This paper studies insurance demand for individuals with limited financial literacy. We propose uncertainty about insurance payouts, resulting from contract complexity, as a novel channel that affects decision-making of financially illiterate individuals. Then, a trade-off between second-order...

Mit einem an der FAU durchgeführten Laborexperiment haben wir finanzielle Entscheidungen bei Risiko beziehungsweise Ambiguität analysiert. Wir haben die Anfälligkeit für irrationale Entscheidungen sowie den Zusammenhang zwischen finanzieller Bildung und mathematischen Fähigkeiten einerseits...