If doctors take the costs of treatment into account when prescribing medication, their objectives differ from their patients' objectives because the patients are insured. This misalignment of interests hampers communication between patient and doctor. Giving cost incentives to doctors increases...

In this manuscript we present several possible ways of modeling human capital accumulation during the spread of a disease following an agent based approach, where agents behave maximizing their intertemporal utility. We assume that the interaction between agents is of mean field type, yielding a...

Researchers around the globe are searching for a "combo-drug" against COVID-19 by trying to combine various existing drugs. Given a set of such drugs, various algorithms (based, for example, on artificial intelligence) are used to identify the efficacy of different shares of the constituent...

This paper examines the trade-off between risk allocation and quality supply for an insurance monopolist when individuals face two kinds of risk related to health. First, they may suffer an ordinary monetary loss. Second, they are subject to uncertain premiums because their type may change. We...

An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment,...

The usual, official approach to Olympic and Paralympic results is nonsense from the collective point of view. A rearrangement using all medals gained by each nation provides new rankings which can be linked to two compelling factors, population (nature) and income (nurture)

The likelihood of cancer emergence is highly dependent on the underlying tissue structure. This article gives evolutionary explanations for why natural selection fails to select for tissue structures that would minimize the likelihood of cancer. In a second step, a mathematical framework is...

Scholars have long recognized the difficulties of communicating risk to the public. The rise of mobile gaming presents unprecedented opportunities for risk communicators to reach millions of potential users in engaging and potentially effective ways. Gamifying risk communication may help users...

Problem definition:We consider a clinic with strategic patients who choose between making an appointment, incurring an indirect wait cost, and walking in, bearing an inconvenience cost and a risk of being rejected. Patients are of two types,differentiated through their indirect waiting cost. We...