This paper develops a model for interdependent demand for health insurance and health care under uncertainty to throw light on the issue of insurance-induced distortions in the demand for health care services. The model is used to empirically analyze the determinants of the choice of health...

This paper has two related purposes. The first is to bring together and review a number of earlier studies which have attempted to estimate the value of Australia’s privately held wealth stock. The second is to present new estimates covering the 1980s, based partly on these earlier studies,...