Health insurance as a two-part pricing contract

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 102, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Lakdawalla, Darius ^a,b   Sood, Neeraj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance; Market power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876789864     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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