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Information updating and insurance dropout : evidence from dental insurance

Grönqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

. -- Asymmetric Information ; Adverse Selection ; Learning ; Health Insurance …

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Does adverse selection matter? : Evidence from a natural experiment

Grönqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The empirical evidence of adverse selection in insurance markets is mixed. The problem in assessing the extent of adverse selection is that private information, on which agents act, is generally unobservable to the researcher, which makes it difficult to distinguish between adverse selection and...

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(M)oral hazard?

Grönqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2006

Would you go to the dentist more often if it were free? Observational data is here used to analyze the impact of full-coverage insurance on dental care utilization using different identification strategies. The challenge of assessing the bite of moral hazard without an experimental study design...

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Tax policy and entrepreneurial entry with information asymmetry and learning

D'Andria, Diego - 2017 - This version: February 2017

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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Learning by Owning in a Lemons Market

Martel, Jordan - 2019

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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Information updating and insurance dropout : evidence from dental insurance

Grönqvist, Erik - In: Competitive failures in insurance markets : theory and …, (pp. 135-156). 2006

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A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2008

We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...

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Does It Pay to Know the Prices in Health Care?

Lieber, Ethan M.J - 2018

Consumers rarely know the price of medical care before they consume it. I use variation in the timing of access to a new source of price information to show how access to and search for price information leads consumers to pay significantly less for care. I provide suggestive evidence that...

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Learning from Lemons : The Role of Government in Index Insurance for Individuals

Clarke, Daniel - 2015

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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Endogenizing private information : incentive contracts under learning by doing

Gärtner, Dennis (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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