from a societal perspective: ex ante moral hazard from health insurance, externalities from vaccinations, lack of consumer … periodic health examinations to private health lifestyle decisions such as regular exercise and non-smoking. The aim of this … prevention means, the chapter reviews some basic theoretical insights about prevention from human capital models and insurance …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …

national health insurance enrolment. Stakeholder’s perception of adverse selection remains a paramount culprit in the … congress. We examine the existence of adverse selection in rural insurance markets by comparing the effects of pre-existing or … health insurance markets if pre-existing conditions are considered, but risk attitudes yield contrary effects. Conclusions …

preferences. Full insurance cannot be rejected. As the risk-sharing as-if-complete-markets theory might predict, estimated risk …

A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … after the consideration of the CEO power score in the cost efficiency, the relation between insurance efficiency and the …

insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P …. The implications further shed light on the motivation for insurance firms to improve efficiency that enable them to charge …This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful …