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. -- Asymmetric Information ; Adverse Selection ; Learning ; Health Insurance …
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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...
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the presence of learning by policyholders about their risk type, such a coverage-accident correlation exists only for …
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subsidy to labour and a simultaneous tax on entrepreneurs to curb excessive entry, with learning a subsidy-only policy can be …-increasing faster learning. …
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We study market dynamics when an owner learns over time about the quality of her asset. Since this information is private, the owner sells strategically to a less informed buyer following sufficient negative information. In response, market prices feature a "U-shape" relative to the length of...
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(2010). My model allows for an analysis of the effects of firm learning on labor market efficiency in the presence of search … frictions. I find that firm learning increases relative expected earnings in high-ability jobs and, thereby, enhances imitation … priori. Numerical results show that firm learning does not increase labor market efficiency. …
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This paper considers the potential role of government in aiding the scale-up of high quality index insurance products in developing countries. In particular, we analyse optimal public policy in light of the fact that index insurance policies are typically credence goods - that is, the basis risk...
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technologies display learning effects and agents’ rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full … commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are over- or under-exploited crucially depends on … whether learning effects increase or decrease the principal’s uncertainty about agents’ costs of production. Hence, what …
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We analyze a social learning model where the agents' utility depends not only on an unknown common component but also … on an unknown idiosyncratic component. Each agent splits a learning budget between the two components. We characterize … the optimal learning decisions and find necessary and sufficient conditions for complete learning. As agents learn from …
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