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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …

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Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets—What Are the Welfare Effects?

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show that his results are robust: For a small information...

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Private, social and self-insurance for long-term care in the presence of family help: A political economy analysis

De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study the political determination of the level of social long-term care insurance when voters also choose private insurance and saving amounts. Agents differ in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social insurance redistributes across income and risk...

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Basic versus supplementary health insurance: the role of cost effectiveness and prevalence

Boone, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …

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Basic versus supplementary health insurance: moral hazard and adverse selection

Boone, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper introduces a tractable model of health insurance with both moral hazard and adverse selection. We show that …

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Does the market choose optimal health insurance coverage?

Boone, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Consumers, when buying health insurance, do not know the exact value of each treatment that they buy coverage for. This … government can stimulate R&D in breakthrough treatments by excluding treatments with low value added from health insurance … coverage. If the country is rich enough such a government intervention in a private health insurance market raises welfare. …

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Monopoly Insurance with Endogenous Information

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice, consumers can determine the precision of a privately observed signal that is informative about their accident risk. The equilibrium effort is, depending on parameter values, either...

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Assortative Matching in a Non-transferable World

Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Progress in the application of matching models to environments in which the utility between matching partners is not fully transferable has been hindered by a lack of characterization results analogous to those that are known for transferable utility. We present sufficient conditions for...

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The Returns from Reducing Corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda

Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

What is the most effective way to increase primary school enrolment and student learning? We argue that innovations in governance of social services may yield the highest return since social service delivery in developing countries is often plagued by inefficiencies and corruption. We examine...

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Thailand’s Student Loan Fund: An Analysis of Interest Rate Subsidies and Repayment Hardships

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha; Polsiri, Piruna; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper presents analysis of the implicit subsidies and repayment hardships of Thailand’s Student Loan Fund (SLF). Comparisons are made between the current SLF with alternative similar schemes, assuming different rates of interest and loan repayment periods. We find that the implicit...

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