) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

state-run retirement insurance which is based on apportionment. Financial service providers, especially banks and insurance … occupational disablement insurances is still growing. Simultaneously, especially risk groups cannot afford insurance contributions …

state-run retirement insurance which is based on apportionment. Financial service providers, especially banks and insurance … redemption, because of the resulting social insurance savings. Beyond it is shown that another increase of utility for the … coalition (employer and employee) can be achieved, if the employer additionally pays in a part of his social insurance savings …

characteristics (adverse selection) or behavior (moral hazard), and the efficiency effects of their decisions. In view of a greater … allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of …

Along with the creation of the European single insurance market in1994 the German insurance market was liberalized … losscharacteristics of its customers. These effects explain whyinformational constraints and market power are immanent oninsurance markets.Insurance … appropriate insurance premium will induce an efficientuse of prevention by the customers. Information constraints mayinhibit the …

fully dynamic model class overlapping generations of Fehr (1999) enabling a decomposition of welfare effects into efficiency … the Thai base case data of the year 2000 suggest that the tax reform generate moderate long-term efficiency gains. While …

This article deals with the optimal differentiation of agri-environmental contracts based on a self-selection mechanism …. The paper demonstrates that both economic efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditures can be increased, if a menu … of combinations of farming practices and payments are offered. However, there is a trade-off between efficiency and …