Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/167903 
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2016
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[Journal:] Risks [ISSN:] 2227-9091 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-9
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MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
In the linear coinsurance problem, examined first by Mossin (1968), a higher absolute risk aversion with respect to wealth in the sense of Arrow-Pratt implies a higher optimal coinsurance rate. We show that this property does not hold for health insurance under ex post moral hazard; i.e., when illness severity cannot be observed by insurers, and policyholders decide on their health expenditures. The optimal coinsurance rate trades off a risk-sharing effect and an incentive effect, both related to risk aversion.
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health insurance
ex post moral hazard
coinsurance
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D8
I1
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