• Title of article

    Optimal health insurance contract: Is a deductible useful?

  • Author/Authors

    David Bardey، نويسنده , , Romain Lesur، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    313
  • To page
    317
  • Abstract
    According to insurance theory, agents who have insurance coverage have less incentives to make preventive actions. In this paper, we argue that the optimality of a deductible [Shavell, S., 1979. On moral hazard and insurance, Quarterly Journal of Economics 93, 541–562.] cannot be extended to the health insurance sector.
  • Keywords
    Health insurance , Ex ante moral hazard , Bi-dimensional , Utility function , Deductible , Preventive actions
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435674