Insurance Search and Switching Behaviour at the time of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform
The Netherlands introduced a new health insurance system in January 2006, a system based on managed competition. Such a system critically hinges on consumers that search. It is for this reason we think it is important to investigate the extend to which consumers search, how they search and why they search ´or don’t search. The price dispersion observed in the insurance market after the reform suggests the number of consumers that searches is low. We set up a search model for insurance that includes the main features of the Dutch health insurance market after the reform and test the hypotheses from this model on the data.
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2009-07
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Authors: | J, Bolhaar ; M, Lindeboom ; B, van der Klaauw |
Institutions: | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York |
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