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The Newest “Hot Thing”

…linked with an insurance product. The purpose is better coordination, leading to better care and lower (or slower climbing) costs. In my experience, this works better in larger urban markets…

Models for health care organizations?

…forces) better coordination between physicians and hospitals. The model can be combined with an insurance product, or not. The model allows better coordinated negotiations with private insurers. Patients can often…

TBI is a financial thingee?

…simulator gives soldiers the feeling of driving under different environmental conditions and a Nintendo Wii game system, with its motion-sensitive controller, helps with coordination skills. Once a soldier’s individual deficiencies…

Fixing Monopolistic Utilities

…oversight — solving the free-rider/coordination problem (in principal-agent jargon) of monitoring utilities. 2. Insurance companies would pay for future problems, which reduces the problem with ex-post rate increases to fix…

Labour market intermediaries’ role tells us…?

…appear to ‘call forth’ the involvement of intermediaries: costly information, adverse selection, and (failures of) coordination or collective action. I give examples of each below. A unifying observation that ties…

Roubini and the Bail-in this weekend

…a much more messy collective action problem and coordination game than in the case of LTCM and Korea where the number of involved counterparties was more limited (less than 20…