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Exit, Choice or Loyalty : Patient Driven Competition in Primary Care

Levaggi, Rosella; Rochaix, Lise - 2004

The questions addressed in this paper are related to access rules to primary care services and the potential for patient driven competition between GPs and specialists. Most of the literature on the performance of primary care has dealt with reforming payment schemes, little attention being paid...

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The Gatekeeping Role of General Practitioners' : Does Patients' Information Matter?

Gonzalez, Paula - 2007

We deal with a principal-agent model in which the health authority acts as a principal for both a patient and a General Practitioner (GP). In this framework, we study the role of GPs as filters for secondary care, emphasizing the implications that patients' information may have for health...

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Is This Salad Safe? Voluntary versus Mandatory Disclosure of Product Risk Characteristics

Aslam, Maria Vyshnya - 2015

This paper focuses on risk information campaigns familiarizing consumers with hazardous product attributes and compares policies advocating voluntary and mandatory displays of warning messages. The food allergen labeling campaign provides an opportunity to focus on the availability and...

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The Political Economy of Transparency : What Makes Disclosure Policies Effective?

Fung, Archon; Graham, Mary; Weil, David; Fagotto, Elena - 2008

Regulatory transparency - mandatory disclosure of information by private or public institutions with a regulatory intent - has become an important frontier of government innovation. This paper assesses the effectiveness of such transparency systems by examining the design and impact of financial...

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The Political Economy of Transparency : What Makes Disclosure Policies Sustainable?

Fung, Archon; Graham, Mary; Weil, David; Fagotto, Elena - 2008

This paper explores the dynamics of transparency. It asks why some government-created systems of disclosure improve over time while others stagnate or degenerate into costly paperwork exercises. Transparency policies inevitably begin as unlikely compromises. Though transparency is universally...

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The Benefits and Costs of Transparency : A Model of Disclosure Based Regulation

Weil, David - 2008

The Enron scandal has raised questions regarding the adequacy of the present system of financial disclosure. At the same time, public policies increasingly use information disclosure as a regulatory device in a variety of areas beyond financial reporting. This paper provides a framework for...

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Auditing versus monitoring and the role of commitment

Jost, Peter-J. - In: Review of Accounting Studies (2021), pp. 1-34

This paper studies the effect of timing and commitment of verification in a principal-agent relationship with moral … simultaneously with his effort choice and auditing where the principal can condition her verification effort on the realized outcome … the time of contracting. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the importance of commitment by the principal …

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Risk Classification in Insurance Contracting

Dionne, Georges; Rothschild, Casey G. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

Risk classification refers to the use of observable characteristics by insurers to group individuals with similar expected claims, compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby reduce asymmetric information. An efficient risk classification system generates premiums that fully reflect the...

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Risk Classification and Health Insurance

Dionne, Georges; Rothschild, Casey G. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012

Risk classification refers to the use of observable characteristics by insurers to group individuals with similar expected claims, compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby reduce asymmetric information. With perfect risk classification, premiums fully reflect the expected cost associated...

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Dynamic, incentive-compatible contracting for health services

Levaggi, Rosella; Moretto, Michele; Pertile, Paolo - 2023

This paper aims to characterise a dynamic, incentive-compatible contract for the provision of health services, allowing for both moral hazard and adverse selection. Patients' severity changes over time following a stochastic process and is private information of the provider. We characterise the...

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