History of Health Insurance in the United States -- The Affordable Care Act -- A Summary of Insurance Coverage -- The Demand for Insurance -- Adverse Selection -- Underwriting and Rate Making -- Risk Adjustment -- Moral Hazard and Prices -- Utilization Management -- Managed Care, Selective...

The empirical evidence of adverse selection in insurance markets is mixed. The problem in assessing the extent of adverse selection is that private information, on which agents act, is generally unobservable to the researcher, which makes it difficult to distinguish between adverse selection and...

Micro data from a dental insurance natural experiment is used to analyze why agents opt out of insurance. The purpose is to relate the dropout decision to new information on risk, acquired by the policy holder and the insurer. The results show that agents tend to leave the insurance when...

Trotz der seit 1945 fortdauernder Debatte über die Rolle der PKV ist ihre Entwicklung bis zur Deregulierung im Jahr 1994 nur punktuell aufgearbeitet. Die gesellschaftliche Rolle der PKV und ihr Verhältnis zur GKV waren stets umstritten. Trotz der hohen Regulierungsdichte konnte sich die PKV...