Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19098 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1634
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on demand for medical care. It considers the insurance demand of different types of agents: naive individuals, individuals who are able to commit to medical care demand and sophisticated individuals. Furthermore, it raises the question of whether inconsistency of preferences reinforces or tones down moral hazard problems.
Subjects: 
health insurance
medical care
health state
behavioural economics
prospect theory
time inconsistency
JEL: 
D91
I11
D82
G22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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